When connecting to Remote Desktop, credentials do not clearly show Domain
Hi there,
When connecting to a Server 2008 R2 RDP server using a Windows 7 Pro client, it is unclear which domain will be used for the logon. W7 has saved the last username I used to connect - it is the domain Administrator account. However, the "Windows Security
- Enter your credentials" popup box does not show this fact. It simply indicates that I'm connecting with Administrator, and that I need to enter a password.
This is not a problem for me, but when it comes to our users, this is not ideal. I do not want them to use the domain\username notation, because most of them struggle just to remember their username and password! :) Is there any way to make the credentials
manager behave like the old RDP login? In other words, to make it display a dropdown containing the domain name for selection, separate to the username?
I can't really see why this change was made to Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 - it just clouds the issue by making the logon process unclear, and really isn't a step forward.
In addition to this, I have been evaluating RemoteApp. On an XP client machine, a similar thing occurs when running the RDP file generated by the publishing process. The logon asks only for a username and password, with no indication of domain. I log on,
thinking that because the client is joined to the domain in question and I have already logged on to that client with a domain user, it would know that I want to use the same domain for the RDP login. This isn't the case - it prefixes the username with the
client machine name, somehow attempting to logon to RDP with a local user on the laptop! :)
My main problem is really the W7 thing, hence posting here - but I'd also like to solve the XP issue too if possible.
Thanks for any advice and help you can offer :)
Darren Horton.
February 17th, 2011 7:32am
AFAIK there is no way to show the old style logon dialog in Windows 7 that shows all available domains in a drop-down list.
Your users can either use the domain\username location or logon with their UPN (name@domainfqdn). If the UPN resembles their mail address then this might be less hard to remember.Ray - Author of Windows 7 for XP Professionals
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February 17th, 2011 11:12am
AFAIK there is no way to show the old style logon dialog in Windows 7 that shows all available domains in a drop-down list.
Your users can either use the domain\username location or logon with their UPN (name@domainfqdn). If the UPN resembles their mail address then this might be less hard to remember.Ray - Author of Windows 7 for XP Professionals
February 17th, 2011 7:11pm