Re: Remote Desktop - change in the way I am asked to logon - what's happened ?

northof40 wrote:
Hi - I use Remote Desktop to access a machine on the same LAN. My
machine is XP Pro; the target machine is W2003. Both machines handle
their own logons (ie there's no domain controller involved).

In the last two weeks the way the W2003 machine behaves has changed.
Previously I ran %SystemRoot%\System32\mstsc.exe and what I saw on
my screen was an image of teh other machines logon screen (in other
words the normal logon dialog that I would see if I sat down at that
machines screen).

Now when I run mstsc.exe I got a dialog box appearing on my XP
machine which asks me to provider userid/password. When I provide
that I am then given an image of the W2003 machines desktop after
the logon.

I presume that some sort of automatic update to the two machines has
changed the configuration but can anyone tell me how to get it back
the way it was ? Alternatively can anyone tell me the terminology
used for the 'remote desktop with logon handled through the RD
session' as opposed to 'remote desktop logon handled before RD
session is started'.

Sounds like you manually installed (because it is not an automatic
installation unless you are connected to somone elses WSUS server) Remote
Desktop Connection Shell version 6.0 (Build Number 6000). You would have
noticed the change in the look of the window that appears pretty quickly.
It was published in December 2006.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925876

You can remove it from Add or Remove Programs (Control Panel) with 'Show
Updates' checked - Under Windows XP Software Updates...
"Update for Windows XP (KB925876)"

However - it has many features you might like - you may want to learn to use
it before you dismiss it our of hand. You also could have (still can) make
shortcuts with all the information about the connection to each computer
(rdp files) so when you want to connect - you double-click on the
shortcuts... etc.

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