Remote Desktop Connection login

[s.fowler]

Hi,

I have installed Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client
6.0) for Windows XP.
After Remote Desktop has been installed and started, I obviously enter
the name of the computer I'm connecting to, eg 'computer1.mydomain'
and then click Connect.

This brings up a new dialog were I enter the user name and password
for
example:
User name: jsmith
Password: xxxxxx

This is ok and I get connected. But on each subsequent occasion when
I start Remote Desktop the user name is prefixed with the computer
name ie 'computer1.mydomain\jsmith' and I have to remove
'computer1.mydomain' before entering the password and clicking Ok. If
I don't do this, it won't connect. I could, of course set things up
not to ask for any credentials at all, but I'd rather not. Is it
possible to set things up so that the user need only put in their user
name and password without having to remove 'computer1.mydomain'?

Many thanks,

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Hi,

I have installed Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client
6.0) for Windows XP.
After Remote Desktop has been installed and started, I obviously enter
the name of the computer I'm connecting to, eg 'computer1.mydomain'
and then click Connect.

This brings up a new dialog were I enter the user name and password
for
example:
User name: jsmith
Password: xxxxxx

This is ok and I get connected. But on each subsequent occasion when
I start Remote Desktop the user name is prefixed with the computer
name ie 'computer1.mydomain\jsmith' and I have to remove
'computer1.mydomain' before entering the password and clicking Ok. If
I don't do this, it won't connect. I could, of course set things up
not to ask for any credentials at all, but I'd rather not. Is it
possible to set things up so that the user need only put in their user
name and password without having to remove 'computer1.mydomain'?

Many thanks,

See if this helps...

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/01/22/vista-remote-desktop-connection-authentication-faq.aspx

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[s.fowler]

Many thanks, that's very useful.

See if this helps...

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/01/22/vista-remote-desktop-conn...

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