How to remote desktop to Windows 8 with email login? How can I remote desktop to a Windows 8 machine using an email address login?

If enter my username as myusername@gmail.com and leave the domain blank I will be taken to the Windows 8 login screen and receive the login error:


  Other User
  
  The username or password is incorrect. Try again.


When I press OK, the Windows 8 login screen will just show my username as myusername, and if I add @gmail.com I can login.

The next time I open a remote desktop connection the client has split my user name up into:


  User name: myusername
  
  Domain: gmail.com


This also doesn't allow me to directly login and I get the same authentication error.

How can I preserve my username as myusername@gmail.com and login directly?

I am using Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.0 on OS X 10.8.4.
Try adding .\ in front of your email address. I'm not familiar with Windows 8, but with previous versions this directs Windows to perform authentication on the local system, rather than on the domain in which it resides.

If this doesn't work, try also hostname\, where hostname is the name of the computer you are trying to log into.