Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the remote computer because there is a time or date difference between your computer and the remote computer.<\/p>\n
Hmm. I typed:<\/p>\n net time \\\\myhypervbox<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n and it was the same as the time on my desktop.<\/p>\n A Google or two later, and I discovered that this message is caused by an incorrect DNS setting on the target computer. That made sense, since a DNS server died recently. I had changed the settings on the VMs but forgot to do it on the Hyper-V host. Thank you Microsoft for a misleading error message.<\/p>\n Of course my Hyper-V server has no screen attached. So how to change the DNS setting? Umm, not by remote desktop.<\/p>\n I fiddled with netsh for a bit. This looks promising, but it was not playing ball. I tried to list the interfaces and it gave an error saying it could not do so when remote access is not running. Further, I have two network cards in this machine, and Hyper-V creates virtual interfaces, and I was not sure what the correct network interface name was.<\/p>\n Next up was the registry editor. Run Regedit, choose File \u2013 Connect Network Registry. That worked. I went to:<\/p>\n HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\tcpip\\Parameters\\Interfaces<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This lists the network interfaces as GUIDs. I went through them one by one, and in the two cases where the NameServer entry was set to the dead server, I changed it to the new one.<\/p>\n There is also an entry for NameServer in the top level Parameters key but this was blank and I left it alone.<\/p>\n If you want to know what all these keys do, there is a guide here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I rebooted the machine, remotely of course:<\/p>\n shutdown \/m \\\\myhypervbox \/r<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n and when it restarted remote desktop worked again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was an annoying. I tried to remote desktop into my Hyper-V Server today and could not. The message: Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the remote computer because there is a time or date difference between your computer and the remote computer. Hmm. I typed: net time \\\\myhypervbox and it was the same … Continue reading When remote desktop does not connect: changing Windows DNS setttings remotely<\/span> ![\"image\"](\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/image21.png\" "\\"image\\"")
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