RDP session asking for credentials twice
This has me stumped. I am logged onto a Windows 7 Ent computer, 32 or 64 doesn't matter as it happens with both. I try to logon to a remote computer using RDP. All computers are part of the same domain and i have rights to logon remotely. When I type in computer name to connect to I get prompted to enter credentials, that is 1. I put in a name/pswd that has access and then the desktop appears and the logon screen comes up asking me to logon, that is the 2nd one. I want to get rid of the second one. Something changed as this was the case all the time previously, I would get the first, put in the name/pswd I wanted to connet with and it was passed through and logged me on. I can get rid of the first one easily enough and that accomplishes the same thing, I just want to know how/why this happened and how to fix it. The only changes that i can remember making were 1) sett screensaver to 15 minutes and password protect it and 2) set display to go black after 10 minutes of inctivity. I work in a K-12 school division ad we force the screensaveer on teacher computers and make the screen go blank after 10 to remind them. Too many of them walk away and leave the computer unlocked and kids in the room.
March 8th, 2011 3:26pm

Hi, Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet forums. Sounds like an issue from the Server side. Please visit the thread and see if it add some tips in this situation: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/ed624e86-c692-481c-84eb-f9026b574dd9/ Best Regards Magon Liu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum. If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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March 9th, 2011 6:11am

The thing is that all of my servers are fine, I can logon to them with a single log on, including the Terminal servers. This is only happening when I am connecting to Windows 7 Desktops. The article above, unless I am reading wrong deals with SSO. I don't want the SSO to happen. Say I am logged on to Comp1 running Win7Ent as User1, then I open RDP and try to connect to Comp2. Now as soon as I hit enter I will get a prompt asking me for credentials (this is the SSO part as far as I understand, or more accurately SSO will eliminate this box), once creds have been entered I will connect and then I get the normal logon screen that a user would get sitting in front of the computer after they hit the CRTL-ALT-DEL. It is the second screen that I want to get rid of, I want to keep the first one. Or I want to know why the second one appears and how to get rid of it. We often are logged in as ourselves and need to connect to another computer to logon as a student or teacher to test something. As I mentioned, I can get rid of the first screen and essentially the problem is solved, but because it always worked with the first screen being there and the second one was never there until recently. So this is more of a "I want to know why" than I can't function.
March 9th, 2011 2:37pm

I have the same problem when connecting to a Windows 7 Desktop computer using Remote Desktop. I have set the following Group Policy on my Windows 7 desktop, "Local Computer Policy\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Security\Always prompt for password upon connection" to "Disabled" since the policy description says "You can use this setting to enforce a password prompt for users logging on to Remote Desktop Services, even if they already provided the password in the Remote Desktop Connection client. ... If the status is set to Disabled, users can always log on to Remote Desktop Services automatically by supplying their passwords in the Remote Desktop Connection client". Please note that this desktop is not joined to a domain. I've also checked the following two registry keys to make sure they were set to zero: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\DefaultUserConfiguration\fPromptForPassword HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\fPromptForPassword It's beginning to appear to be a bug.
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May 29th, 2011 1:54am

I have that set in GPO, checked the settings in registry and every fPromptforPassword value that it finds is set to 0. Still happening. I have noticed one thing though, if I choose to save credentials for any single connection and then go into options and UNCHECK always prompt for password, then it behaves as normal. However, this only works for that one computer, once I change the computer name the settings all revert to prompting. I also tried setting the policy item for "Do Not allow Passwords to be saved" and that had not effect. This is a more than a little frusttrating, but in the grand scheme is a minor issue. I just hate having a default behaviour change and not know why.
May 30th, 2011 11:02am

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