Hopefully this example makes sense and is clear on what I am trying to achieve.

However if I was to username ' johnc' and password 'mypassword' then it would autheticate and connect me fine as it can recognise the shortened system generated username in What I couldn't work out is why the user was only able to make a connection using thier shortened username as per the internal user that windows created automatically when the hotmail profile was created.Īs an example say my hotmail account was called ' a nd password 'mypassword' if i tried to RDP using username ' 'mypassword' I would received a username and passsword could not be authenticated error in the remote desktop connection dialog.

I am ok with how to configure the system to allow remote sessions and also how to assign users to the correct group in order for them to connect.