[GRLUG] Windows remote desktop problem

[Clay Ashby]

Windows requires credentials to use remote desktop, they could be stored in
your remote desktop program's configuration, and therefore they wont be
shown on log in most the time.

Windows will also store the domain (or computer name), so if you log into
several different machines it is possible that it is trying to put the
domain name (computer name) in automatically and therefore, failing because
it is trying to use the name from the other computer.

That paragraph might have been confusing, so I'll try to sum it up...
Username, Password, and domain are all required (if there is no domain then
use the remote computer's name) for RDP to connect. Newer servers, and
Windows vista/7 tend to hide this information so typically you just do
"other user" then "remote-computer-name\username" for your username.

Check your RDP program's settings and make sure there is no stored
credentials.

Windows Server 2008 made it really, really annoying to RDP if you have more
than 1 domain because you have to type it in every time, no more drop down
menu like the old server.

Let me know how it goes!

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Eric Beversluis <
ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:

> There isn't any domain.
> And based on my experience with remote desktop I don't know why the
> "Windows security: enter your credentials" dialog even comes up. It only
> seems to come up in this case, after I've VPN'd into the office. It
> doesn't come up when I remote desktop to other computers at home and it
> doesn't come up when I access remote computers that have public IP
> addresses.
>
> On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 20:21 -0400, Clay Ashby wrote:
> > Are you including the domain in the username field?
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Eric Beversluis
> > <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> >         A new problem that has not been there in the past: Two of us
> >         (from
> >         different locations and using different OSs) try to remote
> >         access a Win
> >         2008 server at work.
> >
> >         I VPN in. I can ping the server (192.168.1.9). I open Windows
> >         Remote
> >         Desktop and tell it I want a session with that computer. Then
> >         instead of
> >         the blue logon screen from the computer I get the Windows
> >         security
> >         dialog--this is what's new. I don't remember getting that
> >         before in this
> >         situation. When I enter the correct username and password (in
> >         "Use
> >         another account") it keeps telling me my credentials did not
> >         work.
> >
> >         I even tried adding this IP address and the correct
> >         credentials to the
> >         credential vault, but that didn't help.
> >
> >         Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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