Terminal Services Client 6

[JoyPadJedi]

I've been having a few problems at work with this. Recently installed it on my office machine (XPP) and a few test machines running Vista obviously already have it as std.

I have a directory full of about 40 RDCs, created when version 5 was in use. When trying to connect to them using v6 for some reason after entering the credentials the client tries to automatically log onto the remote machine with a username of 0.0.0.0/<username> (real details masked). Obviously having the IP before the username won't work - anyone know why it does this? Anyway it fails logon and I just have to retype the details correctly and log on.

In RDC v5 you could edit the domain, etc. but I know that v6 doesn't work this way.

Connecting to Windows 2000 servers seems to work without a problem, it's just 2003 (including SBS). Is there a setting on the remote server? I'm also guessing installing the latest TS client on the remote machine will solve this, but at this point I'd rather not.

Ta.

 

[jaric]

If you are logging on with a domain account you need to enter the domain as well as the username in the username box. So enter either "username@domain" or "domain\username" in the first box.

If using a local account it should be "computername\username".

 

[Matt-Page]

Do you have a MSTSC server to handle this, or are you connecting directly to the machines?

If the machines are in the same domain as you or your MSTSC server surely it will use this when authenticating? Does Vista disable this service by default as XP does?

 

[JoyPadJedi]

Matt, directly to the machines, different domains.

Jaric - I knew it would be simple - d'oh! That works. Strange that connecting to 2000 servers I don't have to do that.

 

[n3vrmind]

Does Vista disable this service by default as XP does?

its actually running but just blocking remote connections for some reason, with a tiny bit of remote registry editing you can let yourself in