Preparing Terminal Server

Hello everyone. I am studying for my mcse windows server 2003. I purchased the core requirements training kit from the book store and i am on lesson 5 in chapter 2- Preparing Terminal Server (70-290 exam). Right now I have 1 server configured as a domain controller and 1 server that is a member server to the domain with Terminal Services installed. I was instructed by the book to, (on the domain controller), add a user to active directory, and then to create a global security group for terminal server users. I then had to add the new user to the global terminal server users group. then i was told to log off server01 (domain controller) and log on to server02 (terminal server) as administrator. I had to open Computer Management console, expand local users and groups, select groups, double click Remote Desktop Users group and then add the Terminal Server Users group as member. The problem is that I can't add the global group because it isn't found. only local users are available to add. i could log on to terminal services remotely if i added the user locally to the terminal server and then added the user to remote desktop users group on the terminal server. then i just had to make sure the "Allow Log On Through Terminal Services" user right was used for the user. but it seems like the book was trying to have the admin add terminal server users to a group on the domain controller so that once that group was added to the terminal server, all you have to do is add users on the domain contoller. that seems better. But if that's the case, what is wrong with my configuration that would prevent me from seeing global groups from the terminal server and adding it to a local group? I'm pretty sure I followed all steps correctly, unless the book assumes i would have done other steps on my own. Or is this an error in the book? If anyone can help I would appreciate it because i couldn't find any errata for this book.

 

Local administrator, maybe?

Hi, jfoust.
From your words, I think you logged in to server02 as the local administrator. This is the reason you don't see the AD group you created. You should log in with the Domain Administrator (that, by default, should be part of local Administrators group on server02) and add the TS users' group to the Remote Desktop users.
From there, logging in to the server02 Terminal Services should be piece-of-cake.

 

thanks

Thanks for the reply, however, I already solved the problem and forgot to post back. It was an improper DNS configuration / RPC installation. All is great now. I'm learning a great deal with this MS Training Kit.