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Remote gaming multiple accounts - Sunshone-Moonlight question (self.pcgaming)

submitted 1 year ago by wizel10 to c/pcgaming

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I've a game computer based on W11. I do play through my portable using sunhine-moonlight (S-M) and experience is great. Daughter wants to play games as well. My think is to create a second account on W11 and setup a S-M connection from her own portable. Issue is that I can't get both of us connected to the W11 machine. As soon as one of us connects, the other disconnects.Not sure whether this is a W11 setup issue or S-M related. Any experience/success?

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[–] Gorroth 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first thought is that’s a windows related problem. Depending on your specific windows edition, it is not possible to log in multiple accounts at the same time. Microsoft earns a lot of money for this feature as they get paid for user- or computer-CALs, which are licenses that allow an amount of users or machines to access a single so called terminal server. Correct me if I am wrong, but the sunshine/moonlight setup seems to use RDP (never actually checked on that, because I was just happy that it works). So if that’s the case, then there unfortunately is no easy solution for your idea.

Also look here:

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-rdp-for-multiple-users-on-windows-11

[–] Gorroth 1 points 1 year ago

I am just a little brainstorming right now, but…

If you are a bit tech-talented and your computer is powerful enough, you might be able to change your home PC to a hyper-V „server“. So that means you set up windows (I think you need at least a pro edition), then you activate the hyper-V role. Once done you can now set up two more virtual windows PCs running on the hyper-V Host system you just created. Each one of you can use one of them with their own moonlight-sunshine connection.