RDP Port, Alternate Host (Auto detect ping)

Hi,
I tried to reproduce but I'm not sure if I did the right thing. Ping does not support a port, so I don't understand why this was working in the previous version. If you try to ping it from Cmd, does it work without the port?

Hi David

I won't ping the port. I try to explain it in an other way.

We use under "General">"connection" the URL (as example) SRV01.contoso.lan and we use under "more">"alternate hosts" the URL customer.domain.com:33893. In the earlier version the ping check, checked only the first URL (in this example SRV01.contoso.com) if this URL wasn't avialable it connected to the URL under "more">"alternate hosts". The new Version don't ping the default URL, it pings everytime the URL under "more">"alternate hosts". And that isn't possible because the port.

Maybe you could talk with the App programmer. I think he changed something in this part of the App. If we know it's not a bug, it's a new fuction ;-) we could change our connections to port check. But we have to be sure it works now in that way, because it's a lot of work to change 500 connections.

Greets Kilian

Hi,
Thank you for the clarification. I think that I've found the bug. Could you try this new internal release?

http://remotedesktopmanager.com/download/Devolutions.RemoteDesktopManager.Bin.7.0.4.0.zip

Hi David

Wow, that's fast :-). It works now, thank you so much. That's a great support!

Kilian

Hi,
this is not working for me.
I entered under Gerneral the local IP and under alternate hosts the IP (with and without :3389) and get a connectionerror.
when I connect to the alternate IP with RDP I get a connection, also with port scanning I get the connection (but I have to wait for the port scan timeout)
I have already "installed" version 7.0.4.0

Hi,
You need to download the version 7.0.4.0 again. I just have updated the binaries and if you haven't downloaded it this morning, you don't have the fix. Make sure that you don't download the cached version.

Hi,
I have downloaded it for about 10 minutes, but I try again.
edit: same error :( is it important that the alternate hosts is reachable through ping? in my case ping to the hosts isn't allowed by the firewall!
edited by schiesslt on 4/2/2012

Hi,
Ping is the only way for us to detect the host. Do you have another idea?

Hi,
is there the possibility to add a checkbox, that to the alternate host would be connected without a ping test?
E.g.: ping on the "general" host -> not reachable -> connect without any check to the alternate host (makes sense when only one alternate host is configured)

I see what you mean but you could also select the option to prompt for the host on connect. Will this help you?

Yes it would help, but is not such comfortable ;)
But I see that it is not really important to have this function.