Windows login

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Hi All & @badita

What is login mechanism used in Uipath, when we make bot to login to Machine from Server.

How the bot logins to the machine?

Regards,
Rahul

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Hi,
You can run the bot even if system is locked using Orchestrator.
While provision the robot you provide your windows credentials.This will help Orchestrator to login to your system.

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Thank you @ddpadil,

I know that :slight_smile: :slight_smile: But I want to know HOW it works … I mean mechanism behind it.

Regards,
Rahul

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haha ok :zipper_mouth_face::rofl: @Cosin

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The UiRobot Service, as its name suggests, runs all the time in the background, including under a locked screen, and waits for commands from Orchestrator. When a new job is received, it logs in using the provided credentials and runs the job.

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Thank you @Cosin,

Should that credentials have any admin rights. Since, it is bypassing the login screen. or user rights are pretty enough?

Regards,
Rahul

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Hi

interesting. This topic ties in with this one:

Since the answer is still kind of vague, I’m taking the freedom to ask: how in detail does the login work? Is it actually calling an RDP-session (rather not) or what is happening? I understand, it seems to be a .NET-related function. Is there any way I can do what the robot does and check, where it goes wrong?

Background: it seems that a security policy is blocking the login attempt - but we cannot find, what exactly is wrong. Additionally, we are running on a ctirix server farm which does not make it more simple…

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Not really, it should have just the appropriate user rights to be able to do what it’s supposed to do.

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First, a question: what exactly are you trying to do?

And to answer your question, the robot can login from a locked screen in 2 ways, depending on a local setting: by creating a new session, or by creating a new RDP connection.

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we are trying to setup high-density robots… works with “LoginToConsole” set to “true”… not when “false”. Windows Server 2008 R2, RDP and Citrix activated, RDP from localhost to localhost works.

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it works for only one robot. console does not allow multiple connections. rdp should be the solution.

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@badita I’m having the same issue with my setup. I have a VPS on which a community edition robot is active, linked to an orchestrator.

The robot works as long as I am logged in with rdp from a random pc. If I close the rdp session the robot is unable to login to windows thus all my OCR and other image dependent activities fail.

How can I treat this problem. I have tried every setup possible within orchestrator / uipath.settings file on the VPS. I also have messed around with the users on the VPS, to rule out insufficient rights (the robot user has admin rights).

I also tried this with a local pc and no luck with it…

What am I missing?

Thank you!
Tuțu