How to find your Windows 10 RDP credentials and passwords?
Solvedkolmog Posted messages 49 Status Membre -
Hello,
I want to connect to my Windows 10 Pro PC remotely via Remote Desktop, but I can't connect, and I'm unsure about my usernames and passwords, as I can't connect with my Microsoft account from RDP on another PC, and I don't know any other username? Are there any others? In older versions of Windows, we used to create users, but it seems that recent Windows versions don't work like that; at least, that's how I perceive it.
I just created a "local" password, but I have no idea what that is. Usually, I log in with my "PIN" ... I have yet another different password associated with my Microsoft account.
So in the Remote Desktop Manager window on my other computer where I’m trying to connect to my Windows PC, I can't figure out what I should put for the username, and I have no idea what to put for the password either.
However, I have no trouble connecting physically to my PC: I log in by entering the PIN, and the user that Windows automatically fills in seems to correspond to an alias, as I've never created a user with my first and last name. But in my opinion, neither should be useful for connecting via RDP...
For the first time in my life, I'm thinking that Linux might actually be simpler for this...
Do you have any ideas?
Edit / Resolved: I managed to connect using my "local account" and the "local" password. I have no idea what it is; I don't see the connection to my PIN, nor with my Microsoft username and password.
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Hello, thank you for your attempt to help, but it does not answer my question.
My question concerns the concept of a local account, a Microsoft account, the relationship between the two, how to change the name of the local account, why I can use my email associated with my Microsoft account to log in to my computer, and if the password for my Microsoft account on the Microsoft website associated with my email can be different from the password associated with my email that allows me to log in to my computer. Why the PIN code, how do we change it?
We have some answers here.
https://www.malekal.com/windows-10-compte-local-vs-compte-microsoft/
But it does not answer my original question, can you connect via RDP to a Windows PC with your Microsoft account or do you have to go through a local account for that?
Have a nice day
Hello,
The PIN/Hello, biometric fingerprint or whatever we want only serves to locally limit access to the PC.
Remote access can be done via a Microsoft account or a local account, although in my opinion the first solution is not best practice and will complicate things if it’s not Microsoft RDP but rather local or distant network access in a broader sense; the Microsoft account is meant to enable Microsoft online applications, Microsoft Store, Office 365... (and incidentally a wide range of Microsoft telemetry) as opposed to the local account which does not necessarily connect online to use, for example, not Office 365 but Office 2019.
There is also a bit of ambiguity regarding the remote use of a Microsoft account, as there is a higher chance of two different devices sharing the same Microsoft accounts and password than of sharing the same local accounts and password.
In any case, access via RDP to a machine equipped with a Microsoft account is done by designating the user as nomducompteMicrosoft\sonadressemail (the first name should suffice if the account is defined as first name last name) and as the password the one for the Microsoft account.
The account username-password pair for accessing a PC with a Microsoft account is by definition the same as those of this account online.
The PIN, if one is used (with an existing username-password pair of a local account session, the benefit seems limited), is modified via Settings-Accounts-Sign-in options-PIN.
The issue of renaming the user account has already been mentioned, it is tricky: Control Panel-User Accounts-Change your name, but what doesn't change, unless a somewhat tricky additional manipulation is done, is the name of the user folder as it appears in C:\Windows\Users.