Single Credential Prompt For TS Gateway Server And Terminal Server

Sunday, 06 May 2007 by Michel Roth

In this article Mahadev Alladi from the Terminal Service team explains on how to enable single sign-on to Terminal Services when you're accessing it via the TS Gateway (provided you're using the same credentials of course):

"There are two levels of authentication required for a successful connection to a Terminal Server through a TS Gateway server. First level of authentication happens when the TS client connects to the TS Gateway server and the second level occurs when it connects to the Terminal Server. For this reason, the user is prompted for credentials for the TS Gateway server for the first authentication and prompted again for credentials to authenticate the Terminal Server.

If the user is going to use the same set of credentials for both the TS Gateway server and the Terminal Server then he/she can enable the single credential prompt setting in the TS client. With this setting enabled, the TS client prompts the user for credentials only once and uses the supplied credentials for authenticating to both TS Gateway and Terminal Server."

Read the article here.