Remote Desktop cached credentials

[Jeff Vandervoort]

In Win 2000 & Win XP, when I saved an RDP file that included my username and
password, RDP would use them when I double-clicked the file. And that was
useful, because as a system admin, I often have 2 or more user accounts to
use against the same server.

In Vista, it seems that credentials are cached on a per-server basis rather
than a per-RDP file basis. So if I have 2 RDP files for the same server,
they both use the same credentials: Whichever credentials I last used
against that server.

Is there a way to restore the pre-Vista RDP credentials functionality?

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

In Win 2000 & Win XP, when I saved an RDP file that included my username
and password, RDP would use them when I double-clicked the file. And that
was useful, because as a system admin, I often have 2 or more user
accounts to use against the same server.

In Vista, it seems that credentials are cached on a per-server basis
rather than a per-RDP file basis. So if I have 2 RDP files for the same
server, they both use the same credentials: Whichever credentials I last
used against that server.

Is there a way to restore the pre-Vista RDP credentials functionality?

This may or may not provide help...

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/20...ased-on-rdp-6-0-client-customer-feedback.aspx

Otherwise you might try one of these tools...

http://www.visionapp.com/141.0.html?

http://code4ward.net/CS2/Default.aspx

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[Jeff Vandervoort]

Great answers...thanks, Al!