remote desktop showing login screen on connection to client mac

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remote desktop showing login screen on connection to client mac

Hi,

is there a way to stop Remote Desktop from showing the login screen, when connecting to a client workstation? The connection is already arranged with a login, so at the moment i have to login "twice". First time with the auto-login when clicking on a workstation in Remote desktop and second one manually when the screen of the other client opens. This was not in Yosemite, but appeared first in El Capitan and it is kind of annoying.

I use the old worgroupmanager to control the usage of USB devices. Does it interact with the login screen, too?

Is there any way i can avoid this login screen?

I have one machine which is on Mountain Lion, without Workgroupmanger and there it is the ordinary behaviour without any login screen.

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), Appeard on other Macs, too like Mac

Posted on Jan 27, 2016 1:52 AM

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hirschferkel Author

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Jan 27, 2016 2:20 AM in response to hirschferkel

Actually it was the workgroup manager. Had to disable login to local users only, which is activated by default.

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hirschferkel Author

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Jan 27, 2016 2:31 AM in response to hirschferkel

But it still seems that after the screen is sleeping due to energy saving options the problem reappears and i get the login screen, again. I can find no additional settings in workgroup manager... any idea why i get this login screens with Remote Desktop?

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Mar 7, 2016 7:35 AM in response to hirschferkel

Is this really the login screen, or just unlocking after sleep/screensaver?

If the latter, it is a preference settings > System Preferences>Security>Require password x seconds after sleep or screensaver begins.

But if you are using El Capitan, Workgroup Manager / MCX is deprecated/unsupported anyway, so you should set this in Profile Manager.

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Mar 7, 2016 7:42 AM in response to Richard Cartledge

This is the login screen when i click the machine in Remote desktop for remote control. I know workgroupmanager is unsupported, but it works quite fine to avoid downloading files e.g. via USB and grants access control to system preferences for users and groups and: It works locally! I do not want to setup a whole server, so i remain to workgroupmanager as long as it works...

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