Remote desktop and computer name or IP address??

Is it just me, or is this new version of Remote Desktop software that comes
with Vista broken?

When I use an IP address to connect to a remote server, the RD software does
me the "favor" of assuming it is the domain name, and using it in the
username login field!!

So, for instance, when I say I want to connect to 192.168.1.2 and to use
"administrator" and "password", what it tries to use at the server is
"192.168.1.2\administrator" and then the password. The problem is...this
does not work, and I have to wait for it to error out, then remove the
"192.168.1.2\" from the username and log in manually.

Why, when I am specifying the IP address as the computer is it using it for
a domain name?

Am I doing something wrong?

BTW, this same behavior happens with XP when I do the Windows Update and
update the Remote Desktop software to the new version.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

To use a local user account, you use the machine's name before the \. If
that part isn't specified, the machine assumes -- either local accounts if
it's not domain-joined, or its domain if it is. The new version of RD tries
to catch the default case; if you don't specify a domain, RD assumes it's a
local account and does the prefacing for you. If the machine doesn't
recognize itself by that name, however (IP address, for example), then it
would fail.

"Lancorp" <Lancorp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:189B2E28-4211-494B-B3E1-D4B00EF02B25@microsoft.com...
> Is it just me, or is this new version of Remote Desktop software that
> comes
> with Vista broken?
>
> When I use an IP address to connect to a remote server, the RD software
> does
> me the "favor" of assuming it is the domain name, and using it in the
> username login field!!
>
> So, for instance, when I say I want to connect to 192.168.1.2 and to use
> "administrator" and "password", what it tries to use at the server is
> "192.168.1.2\administrator" and then the password. The problem is...this
> does not work, and I have to wait for it to error out, then remove the
> "192.168.1.2\" from the username and log in manually.
>
> Why, when I am specifying the IP address as the computer is it using it
> for
> a domain name?
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> BTW, this same behavior happens with XP when I do the Windows Update and
> update the Remote Desktop software to the new version.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!

How about an explanation in English?

No matter. The RD client that comes with Vista makes some wrong assumptions
and assumes an IP address is a domain name. WTF?

So much for a years worth of beta testing.


"Michael A. Bishop (MSFT)" <michael.bishop@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> To use a local user account, you use the machine's name before the \. If
> that part isn't specified, the machine assumes -- either local accounts if
> it's not domain-joined, or its domain if it is. The new version of RD
> tries to catch the default case; if you don't specify a domain, RD assumes
> it's a local account and does the prefacing for you. If the machine
> doesn't recognize itself by that name, however (IP address, for example),
> then it would fail.
>
> "Lancorp" <Lancorp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:189B2E28-4211-494B-B3E1-D4B00EF02B25@microsoft.com...
>> Is it just me, or is this new version of Remote Desktop software that
>> comes
>> with Vista broken?
>>
>> When I use an IP address to connect to a remote server, the RD software
>> does
>> me the "favor" of assuming it is the domain name, and using it in the
>> username login field!!
>>
>> So, for instance, when I say I want to connect to 192.168.1.2 and to use
>> "administrator" and "password", what it tries to use at the server is
>> "192.168.1.2\administrator" and then the password. The problem is...this
>> does not work, and I have to wait for it to error out, then remove the
>> "192.168.1.2\" from the username and log in manually.
>>
>> Why, when I am specifying the IP address as the computer is it using it
>> for
>> a domain name?
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> BTW, this same behavior happens with XP when I do the Windows Update and
>> update the Remote Desktop software to the new version.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>

I agree with you and feel your pain. I support several clients via a VPN
connection and Remote Desktop Connection. Several of these client use the
same internal network address schema. For example: two clients may use
192.168.1.0 for their internal network IP address schema. If I connect to
client A and then later connect to client B using the IP address scheme, it
defaults to client A's user name and domain. I have to change it to the new
domain and user account. Remote Desktop worked perfectly in Windows XP. I
would like to ask the person at Microsoft what were your thinking here?
Who's idea was this? Why was this changed? Can this feature be turn off via
registry setting or something?. Perhap take it out in the next version of
Remote Desktop? I'm not against change for the better. But, this change in
Remote Desktop is in my opinion not good. Any help here would be greatly
appreciated. I want it to work the way good old Windows XP Remote Desktop
worked.



"Lancorp" wrote:

> Is it just me, or is this new version of Remote Desktop software that comes
> with Vista broken?
>
> When I use an IP address to connect to a remote server, the RD software does
> me the "favor" of assuming it is the domain name, and using it in the
> username login field!!
>
> So, for instance, when I say I want to connect to 192.168.1.2 and to use
> "administrator" and "password", what it tries to use at the server is
> "192.168.1.2\administrator" and then the password. The problem is...this
> does not work, and I have to wait for it to error out, then remove the
> "192.168.1.2\" from the username and log in manually.
>
> Why, when I am specifying the IP address as the computer is it using it for
> a domain name?
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> BTW, this same behavior happens with XP when I do the Windows Update and
> update the Remote Desktop software to the new version.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!