Re: Terminal Services Client 6.0 Authentication

You are not doing anything wrong. I am drafting a response to Rob Leitman regarding a different issue where I plan to bring this up. The credentials are stored on a per-name basis, and not only that they do not take into account custom ports.

So, for example, you can have several TS servers/XP Pro machines addressable through one ip address, like so:

ts.contoso.com
ts.contoso.com:6000
ts.contoso.com:6001
ts.contoso.com:6002

Each one is a unique machine, and as such the client should allow you to save a set of credentials for each. Instead it only allows *one* set of credentials, because they all have the same name: ts.contoso.com.

Credentials are not stored in the rdp file any more. Of course it would be possible for MS to modify the client so that it could store a unique credential set for each unique rdp file.

You can run the 5.2.3790.x client version alongside the 6.x version if you want without problems. The new version will use credentials that were stored in the .rdp file by the old version.

Keep in mind that the primary reason the new client exists is to allow you to use the new features when connecting to Vista and Longhorn server. It is an optional update.

Also, saving credentials in a text file is not considered secure, even though the password is encrypted. Even the new method of storing them is a security risk and there is a Group Policy to disable the feature.

-TP

dwgeis@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
TP, I have a question about the saved credentials. The credentials
seem to be saved by *machine* not by RDP file.

In other words, if I want to create two RDP files to connect to the
same machine with two different sets of credentials it does not work.
Every time I changed the saved credentials in the one RDP file, it
changes them in the other file. This used to work. What am I doing
wrong?

.

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