Comments on: Helpful Tip: Create a Remote Desktop Shortcut

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:03:58 +0000

[div id=commentquote]Change wrote:

[div id=commentquote]Anonymous wrote:
[div id=commentquote]Ryan wrote:
You cannot store the username and password in the shortcut for obvious reasons. It would be way too easy for people to retrieve your username and passwords since they would be stored in unencrypted text.
[/div] I think you misunderstood his comment. The username and password are store in the .rdp file created when you click Save As in RD.
[/div] Yup, that’s exactly what I meant. I never have to login/type anything when connecting to my desktop from my laptop.

[/div] Oops, guess I must have read through that too fast. Thanks for clarifying.

By: Change

Change — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:44:35 +0000

Anonymous wrote:

Ryan wrote:

You cannot store the username and password in the shortcut for obvious reasons. It would be way too easy for people to retrieve your username and passwords since they would be stored in unencrypted text.

I think you misunderstood his comment. The username and password are store in the .rdp file created when you click Save As in RD.

Yup, that’s exactly what I meant. I never have to login/type anything when connecting to my desktop from my laptop.

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Make Shortcuts to Remote Desktops [How To] : : Techies — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:24:20 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:30:07 +0000

I use the “/f” on me remoted Destop session

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:52:37 +0000

Change wrote:

If you use the options button on the original Remote Desktop Connection window, you can set all the prefs in the article incl. username and password and store it in a shortcut too. Or am I missing something?

You cannot store the username and password in the shortcut for obvious reasons. It would be way too easy for people to retrieve your username and passwords since they would be stored in unencrypted text.[/comment]

I think you misunderstood his comment. The username and password are store in the .rdp file created when you click Save As in RD.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:02:47 +0000

The programs that Bob and Spock mentioned in the comments look good, but I prefer to do as much as I can without installing additional applications. These shortcuts worked good enough for me.

Change wrote:

If you use the options button on the original Remote Desktop Connection window, you can set all the prefs in the article incl. username and password and store it in a shortcut too. Or am I missing something?

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Make Shortcuts to Remote Desktops [How To] at SoftSaurus — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:43:28 +0000

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Make Shortcuts to Remote Desktops [How To] · TechBlogger — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:55:42 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:11:14 +0000

My favorite command line option for my win2k3 servers is “/console”.

Royal TS is pretty slick, but it gets a bit “flickery” if a win2k3 server session goes to screen saver. Not sure why, but it can get annoying.

By: justice

justice — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:12:28 +0000

Bob wrote:

Spock1982 — I notice the Server 2003 Admin Tools pack requires Windows XP for the client. Has anyone tried it on Vista?

Yeah it was the first thing i installed back in march on Vista, and a few months later Microsoft release a compatibility update which made it work flawless. So definately works without problems.

By: spock1982

spock1982 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:41:27 +0000

It is messy on Vista. It is possible to get it to work, but it is not just a simple install. There are tutorials on the web to point you in the right direction.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:11:22 +0000

Spock1982 — I notice the Server 2003 Admin Tools pack requires Windows XP for the client. Has anyone tried it on Vista?

By: Andrew Herron

Andrew Herron — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:43:46 +0000

All you have to do is load the RDC client, set your options and hit save instead of connect. No need for messing around with this command line stuff. You can even right click on a saved RDC file and edit it!

Between that and the Vista RDC client allowing you to save passwords, I love RDC.

By: Change

Change — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:00:08 +0000

If you use the options button on the original Remote Desktop Connection window, you can set all the prefs in the article incl. username and password and store it in a shortcut too. Or am I missing something?

By: Seb

Seb — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:57:50 +0000

I wholeheartedly second Bob’s suggestion to use Royal TS, it’s open source and it works great. With the recent addition of it being able to use windows shortcuts in the remote windows, it is now perfect.

By: spock1982

spock1982 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:45:54 +0000

I use the Windows Server 2003 Admin Tools pack. This installs a great Remote desktop plugin as well as a lot of other server administration tools. The remote desktop tools allows password saving, specify if you connect to the console session, screen resolution and some other technical options. It is free here http://www.microsoft.com/downl.....laylang=en

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:32:26 +0000

or better yet, download a free copy of Royal TS… Much easier way to to launch your Remote Desktop shortcuts, even can setup auto login.

http://code4ward.net/CS2/Default.aspx