Royal TS supports automatic logon, meaning you can provide user name, domain and password and you will be logged on automatically upon connect. As a side note, I recommend to encrypt the document with a master password to prevent others to read your passwords if they get a hold on your file. See a demonstration on how to do that in our screencasts section: http://www.code4ward.net/main/RoyalTS...
Connecting to Windows 2000:
Windows 2000 (Workstation and Server) doesn't allow you to automatically log on through a terminal session. This is an OS limitation. Automatic logon only works with Windows 2003/XP or later.
RDP Settings:
On the remote server you want to connect to, open up the Terminal Services Configuration MMC (Windows 2003/2008) or Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration MMC (Windows 2008R2) from the Administrative Tools. Right-click on the RDP-Tcp connection and select Properties. Switch to the Log on Settings tab and ensure that the checkbox Always prompt for password is not checked.
RDP Settings using Group Policies:
The setting above can also be set and enforced by group policies.
Windows 2003: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/li...
Windows 2008: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/li...
Windows 2008R2: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/li...
DontDisplayLastUserName is configured:
A very nice Royal TS user brought this to my attention. If your server is configured to not show the last user name, automatic logon may not work. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260711
To remove this setting on the Terminal Server:
1.Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
2.Locate and click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
3.Click the DontDisplayLastUserName value, and then click String on the Edit menu.
4.Type 0 in the String Editor dialog box, and then click OK.
5.Quit Registry Editor, and then restart the Terminal Server.
If you need a workaround and want the last user to not show up but still want to use automatic logon you can try the following:
The same key at:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
clears up the login username's field with a normal user, but not RDP's fields. So RDP Auto-Logon should work.