Vista - RE: Remote desktop and computer name or IP address??

I agree with you and feel your pain. I support several clients via a VPN
connection and Remote Desktop Connection. Several of these client use the
same internal network address schema. For example: two clients may use
192.168.1.0 for their internal network IP address schema. If I connect to
client A and then later connect to client B using the IP address scheme, it
defaults to client A's user name and domain. I have to change it to the new
domain and user account. Remote Desktop worked perfectly in Windows XP. I
would like to ask the person at Microsoft what were your thinking here?
Who's idea was this? Why was this changed? Can this feature be turn off via
registry setting or something?. Perhap take it out in the next version of
Remote Desktop? I'm not against change for the better. But, this change in
Remote Desktop is in my opinion not good. Any help here would be greatly
appreciated. I want it to work the way good old Windows XP Remote Desktop
worked.



"Lancorp" wrote:

> Is it just me, or is this new version of Remote Desktop software that comes
> with Vista broken?
>
> When I use an IP address to connect to a remote server, the RD software does
> me the "favor" of assuming it is the domain name, and using it in the
> username login field!!
>
> So, for instance, when I say I want to connect to 192.168.1.2 and to use
> "administrator" and "password", what it tries to use at the server is
> "192.168.1.2\administrator" and then the password. The problem is...this
> does not work, and I have to wait for it to error out, then remove the
> "192.168.1.2\" from the username and log in manually.
>
> Why, when I am specifying the IP address as the computer is it using it for
> a domain name?
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> BTW, this same behavior happens with XP when I do the Windows Update and
> update the Remote Desktop software to the new version.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!