RDP syncing?

Question

I connect to one terminal server running Windows Server 2012 R2 from two Windows 10 machines. (I connect from Macs, too, but they don't share this issue.) I connect to the server with Microsoft's RDP client that is native to Windows 10. Both Windows 10 machines have local authentication; neither one syncs with a Microsoft account for login purposes (although both have OD, ODFB, and an O365-based installation of Office). Both machines log in to the same account on the server; there is never a time when both Win10 machines are logged in to the server at the same time.

The terminal server is running on AWS. In order to get to the server, I have to either go through a Bastion host--in which case the terminal server has one IP address--and then log in through RDP; or log in directly via RDP, in which case the terminal server has a different IP address.

If I have logged in with one IP address in RDP from one of the machines, that address will be the default address in the RDP client on the other machine, even if my last login on that machine was to the other IP. Same in reverse; if I log in with one IP address in the RDP client, that's the address that first appears in the RDP client of the other machine, even if it hadn't been used on that machine.

That means that somehow, somewhere, something is syncing between these two RDP clients. What is it?

Answer 1

Due to the scope of your issue which relates to Remote Desktop Services, you would be best served redirecting this question to the dedicated Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) forum on Technet.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-...

Sorry for the inconvenience of having to suggest the re-route, but Technet has a lot of experts there that know the ins and outs of enterprise issues; especially domain configurations for clients. So, they will be better able to diagnose and determine whats causing the problem.

Thanks for your corporation.

Answer 2

Hi, Joseph,

questions about terminal server is much more useful ask at https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-.... Its specialization - corporate using, and this forum - for end-users (home and so on).