Save Password in RDC icon and give to mulit users

[Guest Ferrell Ramey]

I'd like to create a RDC icon that has the user name, password, and settings

all saved in it and copy it to multiple user desktops, but when I do this and

the user clicks on the icon it asks for their password.

 

Any ideas? Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way? All users log into

the terminal server with the exact same settings (e.g. user name, password,

etc). I'd just like to push an icon to each of their desktops instead of

going to each workstaion and creating it.

 

By the way, is there a way to change the icon when you do a "save as" on the

settings? It by default has the regular RDC icon, and in the properties I

don't see the "change icon" setting.

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Thanks!

 

Ferrell

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Save Password in RDC icon and give to mulit users

 

This is by design. For security reasons, the password is encrypted

in such a way that only the same user, on the same machine, can

decrypt it.

Just teach the users that they type in their password on first

connection, and save it into the rdp file.

 

Alternatively, if all users are using the same account and

password, you can set the username and password in Terminal

Services Configuration.

 

Be sure to uncheck "Always prompt for password", no matter which

way you do it.

 

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Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

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<FerrellRamey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 13 jul 2007 in

microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> I'd like to create a RDC icon that has the user name, password,

> and settings all saved in it and copy it to multiple user

> desktops, but when I do this and the user clicks on the icon it

> asks for their password.

>

> Any ideas? Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way? All users

> log into the terminal server with the exact same settings (e.g.

> user name, password, etc). I'd just like to push an icon to

> each of their desktops instead of going to each workstaion and

> creating it.

>

> By the way, is there a way to change the icon when you do a

> "save as" on the settings? It by default has the regular RDC

> icon, and in the properties I don't see the "change icon"

> setting.