So I have to admit, I spent an hour trying to figure out why I couldn’t connect to a remote desktop connection. I kept getting a message that the login and/or password was incorrect. I knew the login and password were correct though because on the physical target computer I could login using the same login name and password. I decided to create a new user on the target computer and low and behold I was able to remote desktop onto that target computer using the new user. So what was the problem? why couldn’t I remote using the original user? Well it turns out to be something simple. When you login to windows, the login screen shows you the “Display name” and not the username. What I entered into the remote desktop was the display name, ick! Once I entered the username instead of the display name into remote desktop, I was able to get in and it worked as expected.
