Answer by Vipin Nagar for Remote Desktop connection without domain name
With windows 10 use \\Administrator
View ArticleAnswer by Raja for Remote Desktop connection without domain name
This ancient problem remains in Windows 10 till the day of writing (September 2022). The built in RDP client was working all right till a few weeks back, but probably after an update, it started...
View ArticleAnswer by Sean for Remote Desktop connection without domain name
In case anyone runs into this again, I was having the same problem logging into a machine with the same user name I use on the local machine, but a different domain. My computer would always drop the...
View ArticleAnswer by Alan Duan for Remote Desktop connection without domain name
imaging you want to remote desktop from A to B as user 'someone' on the B machine.you could do:user: \someoneoruser: B_MACHINE_NAME\someoneif you want to login as user 'someone' from machine A.user:...
View ArticleAnswer by Ian Barnacle for Remote Desktop connection without domain name
You can also use localhost\administrator to connect.
View ArticleAnswer by Jeff Zeitlin for Remote Desktop connection without domain name
Use the computername of the remote system, e.g., CLOUDHOSTEDVM\Administrator. When you use .\ (or no prefix) via RDP, it assumes the domain/computer name of your connection, not the target computer.
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I'm trying to connect to a Windows Server 2016 cloud hosted machine using remote desktop, yet whether I enter the user name as Administrator or .\Administrator, I always get a "login failed" message...
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