Alternative to MS Remote Desktop Connection Client?

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This article may help.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/p [...] 651da.mspx

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"Stacey" wrote:
| Are there any more sophisticated packages out there that can connect to
| standard Remote Desktop enabled Windows machine?
|
| I need to connect to several remote computers on a regular basis, and
| would like something that would remember my login settings for each one
| of them.
|
| The standard Remote Desktop Connection client that come with Windows
| 2000 only seems to remember the settings for *one* connection.
|
| (Or are there perhaps some call arguments that I could put into the
| shortcut, in order to define certain login parameters?)
|

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Yes. You can also specify credentials.

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"Stacey" wrote:
| I'm aware that I can save connection profiles in different files. But
| opening each one up manually whenever I connect to a different server
| doesn't seem much of an advantage over just entering your credentials
| manually (unless there's a way I couldn't find in the reference, of
| specifying a specific profile as an argument in your shortcut).
|

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Yes, give it a try.

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"Stacey" wrote:
|I *know* I can specify credentials...
|
| But can I specify a *configuration file* in my shortcut (something like
| "mstc.exe -config:clientA.rdp" or "mstc.exe -config:clientB.rdp" ), so
| that it will use that right away, without me having to select it in the
| open menu?
|

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Thanks for your *totally useless* anwers!

"mstc.exe -config:clientA.rdp"? ... "Yes, give it a try."...

There IS NO such parameter as "-config"!
I just made it up to demonstrate what I was looking for!
Do you have ANY clue what you are talking about?

But nevertheless, I did finally find out how to do it, and if anybody
else is looking for this functionality here's the procedure:

Start up your Remote Desktop Connection client (mstsc.exe), define your
connection parameters, and save it as an .rdp file. You can now create
a shortcut to this file, and clicking on it will connect you with those
specific connection parameters. (To edit an existing file, right-click
and select Edit.)

You could also use it as an argument in your shortcut to mstsc.exe,
with the following syntax: "mstsc.exe <rdp path>", e.g. "mstsc.exe
c:\myconnections\clientA.rdp". No argument label or anything like that
needed. (But that's probably more hassle than just linking to the .rdp
file itself.)

If you go to a command line, and call mstsc.exe /? you will get a list
of possible arguments.

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Stacey I find that misread your reply somewhat and as a result I take back
my response. I know it probably makes little difference but I apologize.

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