[rdesktop-users] [SOLVED]RE: No password prompt when connecting to Windows 8.1

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean M. Pappalardo [mailto:spa...@re...]
> Sent: 12 March 2015 14:22
> To: Hindmarch,SJ,Stephen,TNV82 R; rde...@li...
> Subject: Re: [rdesktop-users] No password prompt when connecting to Windows
> 8.1
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/12/2015 04:39 AM, ste...@bt... wrote:
> > I have now been upgraded to a new Windows 8.1 laptop and now I cannot
> > login. The rdesktop session opens and I can see the MS account I want to
> > log into, but when I select it there is no password box for me to
> > authenticate into the account with. I have tried passing the password in
> > the command line with the "-p" option but this has no effect.
> 
> The default system policy on newer Windows versions allows only
> Network-Level Authentication (where the RDP client does the
> authentication via Kerberos before actually showing the remote screen.)
> 
> Take a look under Control Panel -> System, Advanced properties, Remote
> tab. You may need to choose to "Allow connections from computers running
> any version of Remote Desktop"

Sean,

Thank you for your response. I have looked and the box that says "Only allow connections ... with Network Level Authentication" is unticked but that whole section of the control panel is greyed out. Do you think it might be controlled by a central policy? I am logged in as a user with administrator access. There is no option as you describe it.

...

Actually I have cracked it. With a bit of lateral thinking I clicked in the panel for others to log in instead of the one for myself. Then I could enter my domain, username and password and gain access. Thanks anyway for listening to me and I hope this solves the problem for somebody else.

> 
> Sincerely,
> Sean M. Pappalardo
> Sr. Networks Engineer
> Renegade Technologies