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Can RDP clients launch remote applications and not desktops

Can RDP clients launch a remote application and then only display that application (and not the desktop)? The application would appear fullscreen within the client and if the application were closed the session would end. ...

How to automate testing connectivity to Windows 2003 server?

Hi all - I am writing an app to test RDP connectivity to a bank of VM Windows 2003 servers. The typical failure mode is for some code running on the server to get itself in a loop, preventing RDP connections -- and most any other type of connection, as well. When this happens, you can still ping the server and it seems to be fine, but...

Why is RDP so fast compared to other remote control software?

Hello, I use RDP-based Windows' Remote Client Desktop utility to connect to my desktop from my laptop. It's much faster and looks better than remote control applications like TeamViewer etc. Out of curiosity, why is RDP better? Thank you. ...

GetForegroundWindow returns Null when remote desktop is disconnected

I have a test that launches an app and verifies it has launched through calls to GetForegroundWindow(). The test is run on a remote machine that we usually access through remote desktop. When we have a rdp session open to the machine, the test completes and all is well. However, once we close the remote desktop, the test fails because Ge...

How to get the IP Address of the Remote Desktop Client?

Hi, I'm trying to write a script to log the IP address of the Windows client from which the user initiated Remote Desktop to log in to the Windows Server. How to capture the IP address of the client in the Server? ...

Allow RDP to public webserver?

Is it a huge security flaw to allow user to connect to your server via Remote Desktop? Right now i have a setup where i only allow a couple of ip-addresses to connect via the RDP port but i am thinking of removing this and allow all IP's to connect so i can RDP with my iPhone if there is some problem when I'm not at home. So as long as ...

How to detect wether remote computer is running RDP (remote desktop protocol) ?

How do I detect if a remote client is running Remote Desktop Protocol? and it is also accepting remote desktop connections ?? Like Open an port to detect HTTP and send request, receive request headers and see in request headers information about HTTP so I will know the person is running HTTP weather if he changed the port e.g: running H...

Generating RDP file on the fly

I want to create a web application similar to TS Web Access, where I can create rdp files on the fly for Remote Apps configured on the server. Any idea?? ...

How can I run an RDP file with VBScript?

So far I have: Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") objShell.Run("""C:\Server01.rdp""") But when I run it, nothing happens. Is it even possible to run an RDP file with VBScript? If so, then what am I doing wrong? ...

RDP through TCP Proxy

Hi, First time in Stackoverflow and I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm looking at a proof of concept to pass RDP traffic through a TCP Proxy/tunnel which will pass through firewalls using HTTPS. The problem has to do with deploying images to machines and so it can't be assumed that the .NET framework will be present, so C++ is being...

Copy files to a remote server via RDP using a script

We have a couple production servers that are configured to only allow access via RDP. There are no acessible shares. The dev team have no say in changing this setup but we want to automate code deployments to these machines. Presently we have to set Remote Desktop to share a local drive with the server, then RDP to the server and manuall...

Create process in a Remote Desktop session?

How do I invoke a process in a specific remote desktop session so that it will start in that particular context using C# ...

Is anyone developing in the cloud yet? (So basically using rdp to acces your devenv)

Hi, I was reading up on Amazon's ec2. And I think that apart from the usual uses: hosting stuff, servers, etc, it could also be used for hosting your development environment. Benefits: Being able to log on from any computer and start developing Works even on the weakest of atom notebooks. Easy options like making snapshots and clones...

Determine if Java App is being run over an RDP Session?

How can I detect if my Swing App is being run from a windows RDP session? Java only solution preferred, but the app is guaranteed to be running on windows so I'm ok with shelling out. ...

RDP sessions mstsc

What exactly is the difference between using mstsc mstsc /admin mstsc /console mstsc /admin /console all answers appreciated - in particular if any of these can effect the user being logged out after inactivity. ...

Is there an open source C# based RDP implementation out there?

Is anyone aware of an open source C# based implementation of RDP? Specifically something similar to ProperJavaRDP or Rdesktop. I'm not looking for addins, 3party controles, etc. I'm looking for a native C# implementation with source. ...

How to determine whether an LSA session is active in Windows XP

I'm trying to get the list of users currently logged into a machine. On Windows 7, I can call LsaEnumerateLogonSessions, then WTSQuerySessionInformation with WTSConnectState. But on XP, each LSA session has 0 for the TS Session field (unless it's a Remote Desktop session), which always has WTSConnectState of WTSActive, and I end up lis...

Detect Client Computer name when an RDP session is open

Hey all, My manager has pointed out to me a few nifty things that one of our accounting applications can do because it can load different settings based on the machine name of the host and the machine name of the client when the package is opened in an RDP session. We want to provide similar functionality in one of my company's applica...

Terminal Server : shadow a session using AxMSTCLib

Hi, I'm trying to "shadow" a session within a session opened through AxMSTCLib (using c# app), but I get ejected. Is this normal with TS2008 ? If so, as anyone ressource explaining how to open a shawod rdp session using managed code ? Regards, Stéphane ...

Opening an existing process

I am using Eclipse in Linux through a remote connection (xrdp). My internet got disconnected, so I got disconnected from the server while eclipse was running. Now I logged in again, and I do the "top" command I can see that eclipse is running and still under my user name. Is there some way I can bring that process back into my vie...