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I have just setup a windows 2003 server running in hyper-V.

When I log in via Hyper-V it works fine.

When I try to login via remote desktop I get a bad user name or password error.

I have:

  • Disabled the firewall
  • Enabled remote connections

Before I did the above I did not get to the login screen. I can ping the ip address of the image.

I am trying to login as Administrator.

Anyone have an idea about how to fix this?

Edit

I have now managed to fix this by changing the password to something without special characters. Strange thing is the I could not see any problems with the passord, had tried typing it into the user name field to check it.

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Are you attempting to login as the administrator user or another user? If its another user did you grant them the necessary rights? – ErnieTheGeek Dec 21 '10 at 14:44
@ErnieTheGeek, thanks for the comment I have updated the question – Shiraz Bhaiji Dec 21 '10 at 15:16
What sort of special characters were you using? Interesting that it sounds like some chars are getting badly encoded through remote desktop. Sounds like a bug in RD? Or could it be a regional settings issue that the chars are encoded using the local computer system's settings rather than the remote computer's settings (would this even matter)? – Chris J Dec 21 '10 at 15:29
@Chris J, it was //, when I type these into the username field they looked OK – Shiraz Bhaiji Dec 21 '10 at 15:35
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When logging into the Remote Desktop connection, please ensure the username field contains only the username (it may have the computername / domain pre-poppulated).
Hope this helps.

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Make sure that the user you're logging in with is a member of the group "Remote Desktop Users" Administrators should already belong to this group, but other users may not.

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