This is because of new CredSSP feature on Windows 7. From client side you can disable this by editing the .rdp connection file for your connection. See this blog for more information. http://sogeeky.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-disable-credentials-prompt-of.html Or disable it on server side as explained in the below post. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserversecurity/thread/69e95376-2b8a-413e-b9b0-8eafd4ed5f4e/-CrDev Blogs: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/satyem

Hi, i'm having an issue with mstsc and win7 that goes as follows: When connecting to XP machines (using mstsc) i'm able to reach the logon box and then authenticate,this doesn't happen with Win7 machines as i'm prompted for the credentials (at mstsc) before i connect, can this be changed?

This is because of new CredSSP feature on Windows 7. From client side you can disable this by editing the .rdp connection file for your connection. See this blog for more information. http://sogeeky.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-disable-credentials-prompt-of.html Or disable it on server side as explained in the below post. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserversecurity/thread/69e95376-2b8a-413e-b9b0-8eafd4ed5f4e/-CrDev Blogs: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/satyem