Linux – RDesktop wrong username or password when it’s the right credentials

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I'm trying to connect to a Windows 7 system through rdesktop, and at the windows login I get wrong username and/or wrong password. I'm sure it's the right password.

It was working before.

I can login with another account through rdesktop.

What can be wrong here?

EDIT: I've tried to add the user to the remote desktop group.

Best Answer

Couple of potential things...

Could be the domain name - if you are signing onto a machine local account (local on the machine you are RDPing to), try using the machine name and a backslash before the username (eg computername\username). If a domain account, try using dokmain\username

Could be that the user is not authorised for remote logon. Try adding the user to the remote desktop users group for that machine.

Ben

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