Re: Terminal Services Client 6.0 Authentication

There is a bug in the UsernameHint functionality of the new client. UsernameHint pre-fills the user name field when
the client prompts the user for credentials in the case
where no previously-saved credentials exist for the server
name specified.

This bug will cause an incorrect value to be pre-filled in the user name field when connecting to a legacy server (2003, XP, 2000, etc.). If the user does not manually correct the user name, then the incorrect value will be sent to the server.

You can work around the bug by having your users
save credentials when connecting. They don't have to
save both user name and password, simply saving their
username with an empty password is enough. Then
make sure that "Always ask for credentials" is
unchecked so that they will not be prompted each
time.

Naturally, if they save a blank password they will have
to enter their password at the server logon screen.

Another work around is to "break" the UsernameHint capability by denying permissions on its registry key. The key is for each user:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\UsernameHint

Set the permissions to Deny Full Control for each user.

-TP

bjdraw@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks for the tips, I have another question.

The problem we are having is that the username that is being cached is
not correct.

The first time I login to ts.mydomain.com I use
username
password

The next time I login it cached
ts.mydomain.com\username

The correct username would be
mydomain.com\username

This is annoying and worst of all users don't know what is wrong.

Is there a way to make the machine cache the correct username?

Thanks
Ben
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