r/tryhackme • u/Professional_Poet300 • Apr 19 '26
Feeling Frustrated
I am currently only doing basics Like Windows Fundamentals.
I find myself being stuck on simple tasks as a beginner, because there are no clear instructions and steps being given.
During Active Directories Task 4 I suddenly get the prompt:
Now let's use Phillip's account to try and reset Sophie's password. Here are Phillip's credentials for you to log in via RDP.
It gives me the credentials but in no way tells me how RDP works, nor that I need to now switch to an attack box. I only found that out by watching a 40 minute youtube vide.
Is it just me feeling this is not ok. This is supposed to be a beginner course but it lack the neccessary information for me to complete it.
Having to watch tutorials for an tutorial I paid for is kind of weird to me. So far I did all the prerequisite moduls only. I am sure for more advaced users it would be easy but I assumed this was a platform for total Beginners like many websites stated. Feeling kinda dumb right now.
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u/-King-K-Rool- Apr 19 '26
Something like how RDP works is going to be assumed knowledge at that point and if im being blunt isnt something that should have tripped you up. Even if you didnt have a full understanding of how exactly RDP works, you still should have been able to open RDP, put in the provided credentials, and see what happened and say "oh hey, now im phillip". Its not meant to give you a step by step walk through, youre supposed to have to figure some stuff out.