uriah

Unfortunately I only discovered this feature and because we only use Windows Authentication, it's immediately unusable.

Please let me know when it's resolved.

Hi Maurice,

That's fair enough. There's already an option somewhere to "Prompt for login" details, it would be good if there was an option to allow it to prompt even if the override details were set, so that it could autofill with the user override and still prompt.

This would immediately allow this to work great for OTP.

Anyhow, thanks for the feature request!

Uriah

Hi Maurice,

That worked okay. Though I am running the latest version and I noticed that "{TAB}$PASSWORD$+{TAB}" resulted in the first part of my password being put in the username, and the second part in the password. So I change this to "OTP{DELAY}{TAB}$PASSWORD$+{TAB}" and it seems to work fine, though I did have some issues.

It would be good if RDM could put a feature in to prompt for the user, pass, and domain, for any type of connection, and auto-fill in defaults for them. This would make it easy for the use of OTP keys.

This macro doesn't seem to be reliable.

Thanks,

Uriah

Hi Maurice,

The login window is the typical one, however the username is the OTP. I went to use the typing macro, however I couldn't figure out how to get it to prompt me for the value. As I would need to give this every single session.

The other possibility would be to have RDM prompt me for the username and password before starting the session, with the default username and password filled in, and then using those values to auto-login quickly.

My main issue is I am using some large complex passwords that I'd rather not have to type every single time.

Hi all,

We are currently rolling out two factor authentication for all servers using Yubikey's. This means that when we login, the username has to be the Yubikey hash, and the password is just my usual password.

How would we go about making it so that I just have to press the button on the Yubikey, and have remote desktop manager auto-log me in.

I currently use the User Specific Settings overrides to save my login, domain, and password, for some of these servers. I just need a way to get RDM to prompt me for my Yubikey username.

Thanks!

Hi Guenther, yeah I did that too. But unfortunately it didn't solve the issue of it auto-filling the fields when I launch the session.

Done.

Unfortunately it's an internal link.

That seems to work.

Which would suggest that it's our website, however that site hasn't changed as far as we know.

I tried both of those. The Default settings didn't work, even though the username and password fields are called "User" and "Password" in the only form on the page.

It sometimes manages to detect the fields when I click "Detect", however mostly it doesn't. Sometimes it paradoxically gives me a success and failure message box. Though usually this means it detected the things correctly.

However, it still doesn't auto fill the forms.

We use the auto filling feature for Web Browser sessions quite heavily in Remote Desktop Manager. This was working fine until about a month ago, when it suddenly stopped working in version 8. I assumed that there was some update to IE which stopped JavaScript injection or something, and that version 9 might have a fix for this. However we've just updated to 9.0.8.0 and it's still broken.

We're running an older version of IE due to certain enterprise software, so I've attached a screenshot of the version screen.

Do you guys have any idea why this might be happening?

I'm running the very latest build of the current version, which you released only the other week, after patching another problem for me. Perhaps when you patched that you accidentally introduced the ability to create directory shortcuts?

2) I get a lot of really weird functionality when I accidentally create the directory shortcut. I also get a lot of weird functionality when moving regular shortcuts around. However the issue I was referring to was creating a directory shortcut, by right clicking on a directory then selecting another directory, results in ALL sessions higher in the tree appearing in the directory you selected for the directory shortcut.

1) When I create a shortcut of a connection, and then rename a higher level folder which affects those shortcuts, only 1 of them has their shortcuts correctly redirected to the new location, the others have incorrect locations, and all other shortcuts cease to be visible.

2) When I create a shortcut of a directory, I don't get a shortcut of that directory, I get a shortcut of every connection under that directory, in 1 single directory. In addition to this, when I went to delete and manipulate those shortcuts that were created, I got all sorts of odd behaviour.

We don't need a secure note, but we do need some basic formatting. Is the text entry on the description field of another entry? Is that what you're talking about?

Excellent, I look forward to the next version. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!

Perhaps for 1, you could switch the editor from an RTF one, to a HTML one, then the formats would be easy, no conversion, and would likely be even more lightweight.

I'll install the patched version tomorrow morning.

David, with the next version coming up, will those files be listed like Sessions/Data Entries/Credentials/Folders are listed? Or will they be listed like attachments, which are buried behind the scenes?

I love the "Note/Secure Note" feature of Remote Desktop Manager, we're starting to use this to keep simple documentation about machines/connections, with the related sessions, for ease of use. We'd preferably like to be able to add Word, PDF, Image, and similar documents here (and not hidden under the attachments section), however in the meantime we're trying to use the notes functionality.

However there are a few display problems with the notes:

1) When you click on the note and see it in the dashboard it, it displays terribly. See the "Dashboard View.png" attachment.

• The contents is not displayed with any of it's formatting, and the formatting is used to draw attention to certain parts.

• It doesn't word wrap at all, instead it is displayed in a tiny scrollable box, resulting in you having to scroll for most of the information, when it shouldn't be in a scroll box at all, and should be displayed more like a web page.

• It doesn't use the whole window so there's a lot of blank screen real estate.

2) When you click on the "View" button (the eye button) it also doesn't render correctly. See the "Data Entry Browser View.png" attachment.

• The contents are slightly more formatted than before, however on the whole it has almost no formatting again.

3) To get it to render correctly you have to double click the 'Eye'/'Padlock' button which toggles the note between secure and insecure. See the "Data Entry Browser View 2.png" attachment.

• When you first click the 'Eye' button (it has no mouseover caption, so I don't know what to call it), it switches the note to a secure note, and ***'s the contents, however the 'Eye' graphic doesn't change.

• If you then click the 'Eye' button again, you'll see the 'Padlock' button, and you'll also see the properly formatted text.

Can you make the Dashboard and Data Entry Browser display like the 3rd point here?

edited by uriah on 6/11/2013

Awesome. I am looking forward to it. Keep in the back of your mind the ability for it to be associated with hardware, and are able to be seen by expanding the hardware.

We're currently working on moving all of our KeePass data into RDM, as it's a much better solution for our environment.

The content of the group. So, if we created a shortcut for the group, it would look as though that group existed in 2 locations.

Though I can see that this would be a bit confusing for some, as they might not realize that editing 1 group, affects the other group.

Yeah, we've been using that. It's just difficult to use with spreadsheet data, and network diagrams.

Overall, we don't use it as a document repository or anything crazy like that, but there's some notes which are accessed so frequently, especially offsite remotely, which make RDM extremely handy for this purpose. The only problem we've had are people not realizing they were there.

Hi David,

Sorry, I hadn't seen that. This is what I was looking for, however it doesn't work with folders/groups. The Shortcut functionality makes it a LOT better, but we really need it on groups more.

Almost all of our servers have a folder for the server, and underneath that folder we have a list of connection types for that server. This means we really need Shortcuts for folders/groups, more than individual connections.

For example the structure might be like...

Servers

- London

-- Machine1.domain.co.uk

--- Machine1 RDP

--- Machine1 FTP Connections

---- RemoteUser1 FTP

---- RemoteUser2 FTP

---- RemoteUser3 FTP

-- Machine2.domain.co.uk

--- Machine2 RDP

--- Machine2 Intranet

Services

- FTP servers

-- Machine1.domain.co.uk

--- Machine1 RDP

--- Machine1 FTP Connections

---- RemoteUser1 FTP

---- RemoteUser2 FTP

---- RemoteUser3 FTP

- Intranet servers

-- Machine2.domain.co.uk

--- Machine2 RDP

--- Machine2 Intranet

Beyond that, I've got to say David, I am loving the rate at which you're fixing bugs, developing new functionality, and responding to the community online. It's really good, and makes this product well worth paying for.

Awesome, thanks!

Oh, maybe this is because I added it in a previous version, and after the upgrade I've still got it. That would be why it says v1.2.0.0

When I go to Tools -> Add-on Manager, I see it in the list, I've attached a screenshot so you can see.

Should I remove this? Will it then disappear from the list?

At the moment the attachments are hidden under their own section. While this is somewhat good for files you may want to attach and possibly never refer to again, it isn't good for attachments you're regularly opening (like a spreadsheet/network diagram/etc), specifically since only some connections/folders actually have attachments.

I know there are Document types which can be put in the tree, however all of these except the text one, just link to a file somewhere. This means remote users, who have different network shares, would need to setup those shares before clicking this.

It would be good if they were visible in the navigation tree, just like "Sub Connections" are handled. For folders they could be sorted amongst the connections or subfolders, and for connections they could be visible and sorted amongst "Sub Connections".

On a similar note:

It would be good if all session types were treated the same. Such that a RDP session, could have a folder, which could contain links or documents, or other connections. This would make it a lot more customisable, and then you'd only need to create a session type which was an "attachment".

When you try to install the "Serial Data Entry Add-on" it says it completes, but after restarting the application, it isn't listed as installed.

When I click the download button, it links me to the source, not the binary...

http://remotedesktopmanager.com/download/AddOn/SerialDataEntry1.2.0.0.src.zip

As opposed to...

http://remotedesktopmanager.com/download/AddOn/SerialDataEntry1.2.0.0.zip