Warn if another user is already connected
Hi guys,
Firstly, awesome program! My question is.. Is it possible to prompt before connection if another user is currently connected to the RDP session you want to connect to. We have a number of client sites which do not support multiple users connected under the same username and it simply takes over the single session. This creates problems for the original user who then has to reconnect to get their session back. I noticed in the connection log you can see if someone is still connected simply by checking if the end date/time is blank or not. It'd be great if an automatic prompt could come up saying "User X is currently connected from 'machine'. Do you want to take over their session?" Yes/No.
Also, is there a way to make the default action when you close an RDP session down to perform log off rather than disconnect?
Many thanks,
Glenn
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Hi,
This is something that we have in our short term plan. It was supposed to be in the 5.9 but it was postponed. I really hope to have this for the next minor update.
For you other question, it's a limitation of RDP, I never found a way of doing a logoff. The only workaround is to call on the remote machine shutdown.exe:
shutdow.exe /l
David Hervieux
probably you can add a shortcut to the session tools wich uses the computer settings and credentials for a remote shutdown /l - dont know if its possible, but in LAN or VPN should be ...
Hi,
It's not possible the /l command only works locally.
David Hervieux
you might be able to do something with the "quser" command...
Hi,
I will give it a try, but I think that the user will need the admin rights ?
David Hervieux
if you run quser on the same machine that the RDM client is running, then that user will need the rights to remotely affect sessions on the host
if it is somehow run on the host, then maybe not... so perhaps when the command to close the window in RDM is received, then RDM runs the quser command with an appropriate switch on the host side to initiate the logoff, then close the window
I'm speaking hypothetically, I have not tested this at all.
Hi,
I'm planning to use the same API than in the Terminal Services windows, I only have to find the right session.
David Hervieux
We are also waiting for this feature. When a team of 10 admins supports 250+ servers it happens more than once a day that you can hear a shout "who kicked me out off the xxxx server" echoing through the office :D