Re: Editing Term Services RDP File to stop blocking credentials

The link is fine, but it will wrap around to multiple lines in your
newsreader. You'll habe to cut and paste it into a single line.

Or visit my website, choose Client Configuration on the menu on the
left side of the screen and click on the linl there, with the name
"Vista Remote Desktop Connection Authentication FAQ"
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<KenMontgomery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 06 feb 2007 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

Oh btw, the link doesn't work... can't be found...

"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

But now it looks to me as if you are talking about the new rdp
6.0 client (aka the Vista client) and not the rdp 5.2 client
which comes with XP SP2.

Can you verify exactly which rdp client version you are
running?

And if you are running version 6, then you'll want to read
this:

Vista Remote Desktop Connection Authentication FAQ
http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/01/22/vista-remote-desktop
- connection-authentication-faq.aspx

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<KenMontgomery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 06 feb 2007:

Thanks for the replies Vera but that doesn't make Microsoft's
product viable.

I work in a healthcare environment with standardized logins
for most of my nursing and physician PC's. There is an
application that works via Terminal Services/RDP. This
application requires a specific user login and in the past we
have setup an RDP file on the first client for each Windows
user ID -let me try to explain that clearer... say a
physician workstation - We give it a Windows login
(physician) and password, set the unit to auto-login. On the
desktop then we saved an RDP connection, including username
and password.

The new version of RDP won't allow you to even ENTER the
credentials, let alone save them. It from the get go says
that credentials will be entered when you connect, which when
you do that, even if you tell it to save them, it erases them
and you have to enter them every time.

This is not at all practical in my environment, since the
application requires a login as well.

Any thoughts?

"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

How exactly are you storing the credentials?
Maybe you are trying to copy a preconfigured rdp file to
your users? That won't work. For security reasons, the
password is encrypted in such a way that only the same user,
on the same machine, can decrypt it.
You'll have to teach the users that they type in their
password on first connection, and save it into the rdp file.
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<KenMontgomery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 05 feb
2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

The RDP Client with Windows XP Service Pack 2... sorry
can't recall the version

"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

Which version of the rdp client are you using, Ken?

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<KenMontgomery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 05 feb
2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

I have seen the posts on here regarding saving of
credentials and hard coding them into the RDP file.
Well, that doesn't seem to work with Windows XP SP2 and
a Windows 2000 Terminal Services server. The
hard-coded credentials are ignored... any ides how I
can get around this, I really don't want my physicians
trying to remember another password for this
application.
.

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