Remote desktop client timeout at connection time

[Guest Giuseppe]

I have windows XP SP2 with the last remote desktop client

I would like to launch the remote desktop client and make him wait until the

server is up.

I mean I have a server that starts after I have lounched the remote desktop

client so the client has to wait until the server is up.

 

or if it is possible, make the server call the clent when he is ready (as

some VNC programs do)

 

Thanks

Giuseppe

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Remote desktop client timeout at connection time

 

This is not a built-in feature of the rdp client.

You could write a small wrapper application around mstsc.exe, which

in a loop checks if the server listens on port 3389 before starting

the connection.

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=?Utf-8?B?R2l1c2VwcGU=?= <Giuseppe@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote on 17 jan 2008 in

microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> I have windows XP SP2 with the last remote desktop client

> I would like to launch the remote desktop client and make him

> wait until the server is up.

> I mean I have a server that starts after I have lounched the

> remote desktop client so the client has to wait until the server

> is up.

>

> or if it is possible, make the server call the clent when he is

> ready (as some VNC programs do)

>

> Thanks

> Giuseppe

[Guest Giuseppe]

Re: Remote desktop client timeout at connection time

 

Unluckly I am not able to wright such an application but for what I have to

do maybe I can use a batch that launches the sleep command for a couple of

minutes and then launches the rdp client.

Thanks for your answer (it inspired me)

 

Bye

Giuseppe

 

"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

> This is not a built-in feature of the rdp client.

> You could write a small wrapper application around mstsc.exe, which

> in a loop checks if the server listens on port 3389 before starting

> the connection.

> _________________________________________________________

> Vera Noest

> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

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

> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___

>

> =?Utf-8?B?R2l1c2VwcGU=?= <Giuseppe@discussions.microsoft.com>

> wrote on 17 jan 2008 in

> microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

>

> > I have windows XP SP2 with the last remote desktop client

> > I would like to launch the remote desktop client and make him

> > wait until the server is up.

> > I mean I have a server that starts after I have lounched the

> > remote desktop client so the client has to wait until the server

> > is up.

> >

> > or if it is possible, make the server call the clent when he is

> > ready (as some VNC programs do)

> >

> > Thanks

> > Giuseppe

>