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I have a business laptop set to my business domain on the same local network as my personal desktop and would like to connect between the two but I don’t understand how to set it up; and both p/c’s use “pins” for security so if one of them is locked, then I’d need a way to enter the pin. First, is this possible and second how do I set this up on each of the P/C’s running Windows 11 Pro.

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Does https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/remote-desktop-allow-access help? If not, tell where it fails.

The link doesn’t help

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I can get to the machine, but the target machine immediately goes to a lock situation and requires unlock. The target machine uses a pin, not a password and there’s no way to enter a pin. If I manually go and unlock the target p/c then it say it can’t log into the machine because there is already a user with that name logged on.

Something has changed…

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I used to be able to do this…don’t know exactly when it stopped working, maybe a month or more ago and I used to connect to my desktop from my android tablet. Now I can’t do an RDP from anywhere. Keeps getting to where it says unlock the PC and then if, and when I unlock the p/c the connect tries to continue but fails saying there is already a connection. What a mess this is now!

Another possible fix doesn’t work

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I saw another post where the fix was to “unlink” your business account and then login to the p/c using your password. After that, you are supposed to be able to login to the p/c using the regular login, even if you relink your business account again. The login with password supposedly has to be done only once, then it is supposed to be possible to login to the p/c using that uid/pw combo account, even if it’s linked to a business account with a different id. I haven’t tried this but am curious if anyone has tried this method and can confirm it will work. What concerns me is that if I unlink my business account (the one with the …onmicrosoft.com id) then I won’t be able to get into Azure or Power Apps and that would present a big problem because I’m working on some client applications.

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https://superuser.com/questions/1618530/rdp-to-home-pc-with-windows-hello-pin indeed suggest to forget about the pin on your desktop and go back to the good old username and password logon.
Maybe, but that’s easy to try, you need a local Windows account to logon to in stead of Microsoft linked account.

Then it shouldn’t matter if you access from Android or a domain laptop.

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This is the only solution that worked for me. Go back to good, old fashioned password authentication. I created a new user on each windows machine that used regular password for login; then I was able to RDP into each of the machines. Couldn’t get it to work otherwise…I was about ready to abandon RDP and go back to VNC which also always worked for me…

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Close this out as resolved…but not necessarily “fixed” in the true sense of the word…Thanks to M/S for mucking things up again.

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