Login Session Option
so after hopping through wayk I noticed something I did not see in the help docs yet.
in options -> Advanced, there is an option called "Login Session" which has 3 options:
- Active Session
- Request Physical Session
- Request Virtual Session
so how do those really work, especially in case there are multiple sessions active at once (like an RDP and a normal session, which is considered active)
and when using "request Virtual Session" does it spawn a new session which is completely independent similar to RDP or does it cling into an existing RDP session or do something completely different.
and considering sessions, if using wayk on a terminal server to help a person directly is there a way to specify which session it exactly should target (e.g. by user name of the target session or whatever)
I hope I can at least assume that "request physical session" is as self explanatory as it sounds and connects to whatever is/would be shown on a physically attached display.
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Hello
We have a blog post coming soon to discuss this new feature; but it was quietly integrated for the Windows unattended service in 2020.1.6.
"Active Session" - the prior behaviour here was quite naive; we would enumerate the login sessions on the machine and take the first one marked "active" by Terminal Services (preferring local sessions over remote ones). The ordering of the sessions was indeterminate. The new behaviour clarifies things - assuming you authenticated with SRD, we look for an active session belonging to that user. If we don't find one, we'll create a new RDP session. If you use SRP or PFP that's routed naively - we look for the most recently active Wayk Now client.
A "virtual session" will try to give you the active RDP session for the given credentials; if none is found, we'll create a new one. If remote access is disabled the connection will fail.
A "physical session" will try to give you the active non-remote session for the given credentials, if none is found, you'll get the physical console (login screen).
and considering sessions, if using wayk on a terminal server to help a person directly is there a way to specify which session it exactly should target (e.g. by user name of the target session or whatever)
It's not currently possible but this is the next logical progression. We're considering manual session arbitration (whereby you choose from a list of sessions when connecting) as well as automatic (Wayk Den v3 gives us options for client Wayk IDs that are tied to individual user sessions, and routing them accordingly).
Hope that helps,
Richard Markievicz
