Hi,
Trying to figure out the best way to make this work. We have a team of 8 admins that manage around 300 servers. I have setup RDM to use a SQL database to store the connections. I would like each member of the team to use this same database, but I'm not clear on how each person can use their own unique active directory credentials and have them stored outside of the database. Can someone describe how to set this up?
Thanks,
David
Hi,
It's simple, you can create a user for each one of them and use the User Specific Settings. It's available in the session context menu. This allow the user to override the default credentials.
David Hervieux
1. I do not see any button to add a thread in the main forum. Using Win7 x86, Firefox 3.6.1
2. I'm having and issue with saved credentials when using Embedded vs External. Embedded works, External gives: "The connection was denied because the user account is not authorized for remote login".
However it connects if I :
-Clear the saved password in External, in order to make it prompt for the password, it works.
-Check the box "Always ask for credential".
-Enter credentials but do not save the password. On the ensuing RDP-based credential dialogue, if I choose 'save my credentials'.
It does not work if I use External and save the password using RDM. It does not matter if I Duplicate session or create a new one from scratch.
We recently changed Windows Domain membership and my Windows user profile was migrated to the new user ID.
Thanks!
The button is "new topic" and I just tried, I see it just before the watch. I tried with Firefox 3.6.13.
For the remote login problem, can you enter in the username the new domain name: MyDomain\dhervieux
If you use mstsc directly, does it work if you edit the credential also?
David Hervieux
I do not see that button.
Either way, I am using Standard RDM, so I have to create a user ID for each session.
I just tried the DOMAIN\UserName instead of breaking it out into the separate fields, and it worked. I should have mentioned that this alternate user ID is still in the older Domain.
However, it created a local saved Network Credential under Generic Credentials in Windows. Is this by design? The 'Network Level Authentication' box is not checked.
To test, I deleted the cred from the vault. Then in RDM, I tried both with the box checked and not checked, and each time it created the Network Credential for that RDP session. (I had deleted the cred after each creation and before the next test).
Also:
- Why would the Domain field of RDM not work?
- If I upgrade to Enterprise, will this go away? Will I need to alter each RDM session and choose one of the global saved creds?
Thanks!
Hi,
RDM is supposed to do the merge for you, but I saw sometime a problem with that. Can you do an export to an rdp file of one session that does not work and send it to me? I will do a test.
For the Network credential, it's by design, that the way mstsc.exe works.
David Hervieux
After further experimentation, it appears that ALL my Network Credentials were wiped out during the Domain migration, so there's nothing left to test with. The RDM Sessions are there, but the saved passwords are not. :(
It looks like I'll be upgrading to Enterprise sooner than later - I had wanted to get my co-workers to use it and go in on a 5 user. Oh well.
(At this point, I'm not tracking this thread any longer as the issue appears to not be RDM related.)
Im looking for something along these lines - I have ~25 users that manage ~1000 systems, belonging to different companies.
For some of the companies there are common credentials that I can set globally.
For others, users have a unique ID they log in with.
For the situations that require a unique ID, I'd like to enforce this "override" in the connection configuration, and not save usernames & passwords in the database for these connections.
@mofunz
What exactly do you want me do add, an option to ask for the credential?
David Hervieux