Thank you @guss77, and apologies for being dense but unsure of “that user”…
Let’s say my logged in user on the console is ABC. User ABC is in linux with no password and auto-logged in.
Does the RDP username entered on the setup page have to be ABC, or can it be XYZ?
Here is the issue – I cannot make it ABC with no password because the screen requires a password. If I enter ABC on the RDP setup with a made-up password (thus not matching linux’s no password) it fails.
If I enter XYZ with a password, and use that from the RDP client, it fails.
I do not know if these combinations are failing because of lack of using the same username/password in the RDP setup as in linux, or failing simply because the logged in user has no password, but no combination appears to work.
Dead end, or am I missing something?
Note that this works fine if I restore the password to ABC, and use ABC with the proper linux password on the RDP setup screen. But I want auto-login (on the console, not RDP) and that appears to require no password.