Comments on: Enabling hyperlinks for remote connections in Windows

By: Ed Fisher

Ed Fisher — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:15:39 +0000

http://keepass.info includes a URL for cmd:// that might be worth looking into, if only to see how they set it up in the registry. They use mstsc as an example and feed it the default switches, which could include path to connection file. Sorry, but I am travelling on business so don’t have time to monkey with that myself. Let me know if you try and where it gets you.
Good luck,
Ed

By: Jason Francis

Jason Francis — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:24:33 +0000

Hi Ed,

Yeah, I could edit the default.rdp but it won’t help – we have several hundred servers listed in the database and each of them is for a different client and therefore the Domain\Username is different in every case. Any further ideas?

By: Ed Fisher

Ed Fisher — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:01:59 +0000

Kewl, glad you got it sorted out. Thanks for letting me know.
Ed

By: Scott Rowekamp

Scott Rowekamp — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:33:55 +0000

Sorry, it does make a big difference if you use rdp:\\ instead of rdp://. That was my mistake. Thanks for the help it works great!

By: Ed Fisher

Ed Fisher — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:10:32 +0000

This works fine for me in OneNote. Sounds to me like the link itself has extra characters in it, like rdp://rdp://server.example.com. Right-click, edit link, and see what it says.
HTH
Ed

By: Scott Rowekamp

Scott Rowekamp — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:04:01 +0000

Hi,

Working on this to setup a clickable URL in OneNote, when I try the link as rdp:\\FQDN it works, but when RDP comes up it has the RDP:\\ in the server name field. Any way to strip that out?

Thanks,
Scott

By: Ed Fisher

Ed Fisher — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:17:29 +0000

Try editing the default.rdp file in your documents directory. Whatever is in there will be used by mstsc.
HTH
Ed

By: Jason Francis

Jason Francis — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:37:47 +0000

Hi,

Firstly, I wanted to say that this seems to work like a dream. I’ve been hunting for this solution for quite some time and am now using it on an internal website that generates the RDP file “on the fly” by grabbing the URL and Port number of a particular client’s server from an SQL database. It works brilliantly. The only question I have is whether it’s possible to somehow send the domain\username and screen size options through to mstsc as part of the link. Can anyone help?

Jason

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:11:11 +0000

The password is encrypted. The .vnc is editable via a text editor but the first was created via the vnc program.

By: Ed Fisher

Ed Fisher — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:27:05 +0000

Are you crafting that file by hand, or using the VNC client to create/save it? I believe Password=XXXXXXX is going to store that XXXXXX as an encrypted password (making me feel better about doing that) but I am not clear on whether you are editing a text file and adding the cleartext password, or creating the file with VNC so it salts/saves the PW encrypted.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:20:49 +0000

Its RealVNC and the viewer is associated with the .vnc extension for these files:

[Connection] Host=HOSTNAMEHERE Password=PASSWORDHERE [Options] UseLocalCursor=1 UseDesktopResize=1 FullScreen=0 FullColour=0 LowColourLevel=1 PreferredEncoding=ZRLE AutoSelect=1 Shared=0 SendPtrEvents=1 SendKeyEvents=1 SendCutText=1 AcceptCutText=1 DisableWinKeys=1 Emulate3=0 PointerEventInterval=0 Monitor=\\.\DISPLAY1 MenuKey= AutoReconnect=1

That’s the contents of the vnc file. It is really just the password part that truly care about. I remotely connect to hundreds of client computers and having to type in the password for each would be a nightmare. End goal is a php webpage which a clickable div that launches the correct *.vnc file that is stored on my local pc.

By: Ed Fisher

Ed Fisher — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:02:53 +0000

What VNC client are you using, and are you sure you want to embed credentials in a file? For your local workstation, appropriately secured, I imagine that will be okay, but I wrote this with a web site map in mind (even though it started as a humble demo) so I never spent any time embedding creds…want each user to enter their own. If I use your client version, I will kick it around a bit and see what I can come up with. If I don’t, some other visitor might and can chime in.
Paste the contents of your file (without real username, password, or externally reachable host of course) so I can see what you’re working with.
Ed

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:34:47 +0000

Trying to get a hyperlink to launch a premade .vnc file, your site is so far the closest thing I have come across in my attempts to be abl eto do this. Love that it works but having to key in my password each time is a draw back. Hence my wanting to launch the .vnc file I have locally instead. Any ideas how this could be done?

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:47:51 +0000

Yepp.

It was a problem in my machine. I tested the same configuration on another machine & it worked fine.

Sorry for bothering you about this, I am very happy with your programs that solved a lot of time for me !!

(& sorry for a late reply)…

Gurra