Windows server and Windows 7 How to Remote Access

Note : Here I’m Talking about remote access from windows 7 to windows server , but you can use the same technique to connect to windows 7 with the exact step that will be mentioned in this post .

Today we’ll talk about Remote Access technique.

Let’s assume that you have a server with Windows server 2008 operating system and you are the admin of this server .

The server is located in its special condition room . you want to access the server many times a day . you can access this using your personal computer with Windows 7 operating system or any other operating system like Mac or Linux ……

you need just to set the windows server just to allow some users to access the server remotely and to open the remote access port in firewall to allow connection from another computers .

Now you will see how to set up your Windows server :

1- open start menu —-> Right click on Computer —-> Properties .

2- in the right of the screen you will see Task options choose Advanced system setting .

3- from system properties choose Remote Tap .

4- on remote desktop part press on the option “Allow connection only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (more secure)”.

5- press select users button to select which user can access the server using Remote Desktop.

6- a new window appear tells you the users can connect to the server using Remote Desktop , and gives you a hint that the administrator already has the right to access the server remotely , press on add to add new users or press remove if you want to remove specific user”s”.

7- press Add .

8- Add the name of the user you want to allow to access remotely and press OK.

9- Now we want to ensure that the remote access port which is (3389) is opened in the Firewall .

10- from control panel —-> Windows Firewall.

11- Click on “Allow a program through Windows Firewall”.

12 – in Exceptions tab press check next to “Remote Access” —–> the press OK , now you opened port 3389 , and finished your work on Windows Server .

13- Go to Windows 7 and press start and type “Remote Desktop Connection” and press on the result .

14-  Remote Desktop Connection program will run and will ask you to enter the IP of the Computer that you want to access to remotely.

15- Enter the IP of Windows Server and then : then the port number 3389 that you opened in Windows Firewall like the next figure.

16 – Press Connect .

17 – The program will ask you to enter The username and The password of the user you allowed to access remotely before .

18 – Then Remote desktop gives you a message tells you that “The identity of the remote computer cannot be verified. Do you want to connect any way ? “. This problem is a certificate issue , Windows 7 didn’t recognize the certificate that coming from the server because the server is not in the trusted certified authority .

19- press yes then you will see the server’s desktop in your PC .

congratulations you accessed successfully 🙂

Windows 7 – Folder Options Problem !!

Some times your computer get infected with virus removes the Folder Option menu item from all windows explorer menus and removes the Folder Option item from Control Panel.

Don’t get angry every problem has a solution in Windows 7 and now we’ll see the solution of this problem.

1- Start menu -> run -> gpedit.msc.

2- The Local Group Policy Editor will be opened.

3- From the left tree choose : User configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Explorer .

4- Double click on Removes the Folder Options menu item from the Tools menu policy.

5- Change the state to Disable and press OK.

6- Go and check the Folder Option item in any Windows Explorer Menu >>>>>>>>>>> It appears again .

Congratulations 🙂 .

Windows 7 – Unchangeable Desktop Background

You have a computer with one or more accounts and you want to specify the desktop background displayed in all users’s desktop.

It is so easy , just do the following steps :

1- Log in as a computer administrator .

2- Choose which image that you want to specify it as a desktop background and copy it’s link, for example (C:\1.jpg).

3- Start menu -> Run.

4- Type gpedit.msc and press enter .

5-  The Local Group Policy Editor will be opened.

6- from the left tree choose : User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Desktop -> Desktop . in the right window you’ll see all the policies that you can apply .

7- Double click on Desktop Wallpaper policy .

8- New window will appear press Enable chick box and paste the link of your image in Wallpaper Name field.

9- Press OK and then log off from your account and log in again.

Try to change the desktop background . You will not be able to do it.

Notice that the desktop background will be applied on all windows users .

Congratulations you set a unchangeable desktop background  🙂 .

Windows 7 – Quota

You have an operating system with two users you as an administrator and another account which is standard user .

you want to set a limit on how much the standard user can store on a specific disk drive .

There is one thing before you start limitation, the file system of the local disk should be NTFS .

How to know which type your drive is, just go to the local disk -> right click -> properties -> then you will see which type of file  system your drive is.

Now let’s do the limitation :

1- go to the disk drive -> right click -> properties ->  in the top of the window press on Quota.

2- press enable quota management check box notice that if you want to deny the exceed the quota limit by the user then check on the deny disk space to user exceeding quota limit check box, in this way you will never let the user to exceed the space that given to it by you.

3- press quota entries button .

4- from Quota -> new Quota entry .

5- Enter the user name of the user you want to apply quota on it -> press OK.

6- Choose limit disk space to -> and enter the disk space you want to allow the user to use.

7- set the warning level to -> enter the disk space that if the user exceed the operating system will give the administrator a report that the user is close to use all the allowed bytes that can use -> then press OK.

NOW log in as a standard user that you applied quota on it:

try to add a folder with bigger size than the exceed ….. windows will start saving the folder in the drive till it reaches the exceed amount then it will give you this message

Congratulations now you know how to apply Quota on any local disk in your computer 🙂 .

Windows 7 – Hiding Local Disk

You are using Windows 7 and you have very important information , all this information are in one of your local disks like (C:/ or D:/) so you want to hide this local disk to prevent any one to easily access this information .

How To Hide a Local Diska in Windows 7

It is easy … you don’t want to use any additional program just open start menu -> Run -> regedit -> press enter

now you are in the registry witch is the database of your operating system contain important information  about hardware , installed programs and settings , and profile of user accounts in your computer .

in the registry browse the following key :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

if the Explorer key doesn’t exist just right click and new key then name it Explorer.

Now you are inside the Explorer key you have to create a 32-bit DWORD key by clicking right click then new 32-bit DWORD and name it  NoDrives.

Now you are in the most important part how to determine which drive I want to hide ??

you should enter a Hexadecimal or Decimal value to determine which drive to hide .

Let’s assume that I want to Hide Drives C: and E: so I should set the value of the NoDrives 32-bit DWORD key with a value of 32 bit number so just we arrange it like this :

Convert the number (10100) to a decimal number  , the answer is (20) or to hexadecimal value and the answer is (0x14) .

then double click on the NoDrives key and add even 20 and choose Decimal or 0x14 and choose Hexadecimal.

Restart your machine and Congratulation you hided the drivers that you want to hide 🙂 .