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I have a Windows machine which I run headless (no monitor or keyboard). I control it by Remote Desktop. But whenever it reboots (for Windows updates and such), the RDP won't work until I log in physically. It's annoying; any way to have the RDP client (or whatever is necessary to enable remote login) start immediately on boot-up? Another option is to have it log me in as a user automatically, and I may do that (the computer is in my home and so under physical control) but it's not ideal - would be safer I guess to just have it run RDP and force the user to present credentials, rather than simply logging in into an account. How to make that happen?
This can be achieved with Teamviewer. But i'm not sure acout RDP. I believe you'll need to have the user account automatically login. – NiallUK – 2019-06-21T11:02:10.597
1@NiallJones: The odd thing about this problem is that RDP always performs the login on its own (unlike Teamviewer/VNC/etc, which have to use an existing login). – user1686 – 2019-06-21T11:03:46.763
@grawity you're right. I didn't think of that. – NiallUK – 2019-06-21T11:04:48.493
The problem isn't with RDP. It is always available automatically... In fact, it's possible to connect via RDP to a machine before logon is possible. It's likely that logging in at the console is changing something with your network connectivity, ie connecting you to a user-based 802.1x authenticated network, or loading an internet filtering application etc. What do you have on the machine that's blocking inbound connections until you logon? – I say Reinstate Monica – 2019-06-21T11:29:04.250
You should be able to login to the console rather than on user level, which is the failsafe way. Connect to your ip address and append /admin. For example: server address:
192.168.0.1 /admin
– LPChip – 2019-06-21T18:20:23.643ockquote>
Connect to your ip address and append /admin. For example: server address: 192.168.0.1 /admin - ah, so in the RDP client application, where it asks me for the IP address of the host, I can append /admin and it will work even if no one logged on yet after a reboot?
– mlevin77 – 2019-06-21T20:18:23.940