Strange RDP / Remote Desktop problem
- by John Landheer
I'll try to be as specific as I can be:
Server is running SBS 2008 R2 (with all updates)
Server is connected to the internet
Server has 2 NIC's, one is disabled
Server is running RDP Service (accessible directly from the internet, I know, not as secure as it should be)
Computers A and B are on the same local net.
Computers A and B are both Windows 7.
Users X and Y are both admins on the server
Computer A can connect as user X to the server with mstsc
Computer A can connect as user Y to the server with mstsc
Computer B can connect as user X to the server with mstsc
Computer B CANNOT connect as user Y to the server with mstsc! Error that username/password is incorrect.
The last point is the problem, I get an authentication error. This used to work flawlessly for the last year. The server and desktops have been rebooted.
EDIT:
I tried:
prefixing domain to the username
prefixing the server computer name to the username
change the password
copy/paste the password from notepad to make sure it was correct
I find it very strange....
EDIT:
The computers are not on the same subnet as the server. The server is at my hosting provider.
All computers as all users can reach the web app that is running on the server.
