Domain field not being recognized

Hi,
can you confirm something for me, is it possible that the domain works when opening the connection externally ?

David Hervieux
Devolutions inc,

Actually, now that you mentioned that, I think the problem might be the changes in the RDP 7 client, which will be released with Windows 7/Server 2008 R2. In that version of Remote Desktop, when used by itself, there's no dedicated domain field in the connection settings anymore, just a username field where you're expected to define a domain name if you want something other than the default one (i.e. "domainname\username" format), so it's probably ignoring any separate domain parameter that RDM is trying to pass to it.

If this is truly the case, then maybe you can make RDM aware of which version of the RDP client your system is running, and pass different parameters accordingly? If nothing else, maybe just make a note of this change somewhere in the program or FAQ sheet. Although, perhaps it would be wise to wait until these new versions of Windows are officially released to the public before trying to build compatibility into RDM, just in case something has changed between the release candidate and RTM builds.

I also saw this issue on Win 7 Enterprise RTM 64-bit. If I use domain\user as the username field it works, but if I use just user and place the domain in the separate domain field the domain is left out and not passed correctly so the login fails. BUT, this was in the current stable release (5.5 series) the other day; I forgot to retest this but I just checked in the beta 5.6.0.15 and putting just the username and just the domain in their own fields does work now!

Excellent!

Thank you for the information

David Hervieux
Devolutions inc.