Mutant_Tractor

Guys, they finally implemented this into their API!

http://forum.screenconnect.com/yaf_postsm31486_Remote-Desktop-Manager-integration-for-auto-login.aspx#post31486

And a demo: http://help.screenconnect.com/Using_the_ScreenConnect_Helper_menu#Customizing_the_ScreenConnect_Helper

Any chance this could be integrated?

Would be a killer feature!

Any news on this using Rebex guys?

I got it to work through putty but would rather use the built in agent.

Upon using RebEx SSH Shell or RebEx SSH as the connection type for the jump host it fails to connect to the secondary box, if I create an entry with the same settings but with Putty as the target, it works.

Myles

SS needs to extend their API, I have a ticket open with them (for duo push), but their feature releases are glacially slow.

Hi Guys,

There are three types of ScreenConnect session:

Support - Create on an ad-hoc basis for user help

Meeting - Ad-hoc, allows multiple "hosts" to connect to a guest

Access - Always-on connections to log in to remote machines

The problem we're seeing in RDM is that when you choose to "host" a session (access, meet or support) when you close the window it displays this popup:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qcak5ioopk3zlq0/Image%202.png?dl=0

This should not be the case for "Access" sessions, if an access session is closed we need to reinstall the SC client on that machine and re-add it to SC.

Can this popup please only be displayed for Support and Meet type sessions as these are ones that would legitimately be stopped on close of session?

This can be determined through the returned Session object from the API with the "SessionType" param:

http://help.screenconnect.com/Session_Manager_API_Reference#Session

I believe this is RDM as we don't see this when using SC directly through the web console.

Thanks,

Myles

edited by Mutant_Tractor on 6/18/2015

Awesome, thanks Hubert,

Will test it once i've got the update and report back with anything I find :)

Have you heard anything from the SC guys on this Hubert?

(For reference I have a forum discussion open with them about this: http://forum.screenconnect.com/yaf_postst6611_Remote-Desktop-Manager-integration-for-auto-login.aspx )

Myles

edited by Mutant_Tractor on 6/15/2015

edited by Mutant_Tractor on 6/15/2015

Tested, working now in 10.9.3.0 as expected, thanks Hubert.

Great thanks!

Hi Hubert,

Have tested this, it works great, however, broken when using "My Personal Credentials".

It requests server name, username and password, even if server name is populated (obviously my personal credentials makes username and password unset-able).

Also, is it possible to have RDM launch multiple SC sessions from the one group window - like if I Ctrl+Click 2 sessions and click host, can it launch both of those for me - i've tested and seem to only be able have one launch.

Myles

Great Hubert,

Thanks as-always for the excellent support!

Myles

Another thing i've noticed, when you auth once with RADIUS, it doesn't store the token or keep the session open, instead, it creates a new connection on each item opened.

Instead RDM will try to re-auth using the same RADIUS password as last time.

This is very annoying as in the 2FA solution will always, for every new connection, show a failed auth attempt, then the user will be prompted to put in their password and RADIUS password again, and then auth succeeds.

However this happens for EVERY new session - in a playlist, it gets pretty ridiculous and irritating.

Is it possible to have the access token cached and use the same one until a re-auth is requested by SS?

(In SS we have webservices timeout set to 2 hours, so the token should be valid for that amount of time?)

Myles

Hi Hubert,

This doesn't seem to be in 10.9.1.0?

Is that correct?

Myles

Hi Hubert/David.

Got round to testing this today, works great, but a bug i've noticed:

Edit Group/Folder -> Select Credential Repository -> Select SS instance -> Select From List

There is no option for RADIUS here so the auth obviously fails, can this be added into this screen too?

Cheers,

Myles

That's great news thanks Hubert, looking forward to it!

Myles

Hi Guys,

Really appreciate all the requests you're pushing through for us and we're almost at what we'd consider a perfect solution.

The last piece in the puzzle for us is to push credentials that are pulled from a repo (like secret server) and take these credentials and push them to the Screen Connect API to log on to the client machine itself.

So to clarify currently this happens:

Double-click a SC session in RDM, RDM authenticates with SS - gets the SC server credentials, RDM auths with the SC server and selects + launches the session, we then enter the local client machine's login manually from screen connect via copy/paste.

Desired outcome:

Double-click a SC session in RDM, RDM authenticates with SS - gets the SC server credentials and the client machine's credentials (likely through another credential selection box allowing the SS secret to be specified separate to the SC server auth credentials), RDM auths with the SC server and selects + launches the session, RDM should pass the client machine's credentials pulled from SS earlier to the SC API (this is where the client machine logs on to the windows/whatever session).

Can you guys engage with ScreenConnect about this, I checked their API documentation but it seems very empty, however it seems like it is quite solid.

Cheers,

Myles

No joy I assume? :/

Great thanks Hubert!

Great thanks David.

Myles

@David, great thanks for the update, please keep us posted on progress as this is the only sticking point for us before we can implement a full scale trial.

Yes of course Hubert, will it be in the next beta?

I can click create playlist with selected items, however, when it opens the select items screen for the playlist 0 items are selected and the AutoHotKey script is not listed as select-able.

Hi David,

I seem to be unable to add an AutoHotKey script to a Playlist?

Is this by design? (Using v10.5)

Myles

Hi,

Is it is possible to run a playlist/Macro/Script on startup of RDM?

We have a number of AHK scripts that would be used every time RDM is open and it would be helpful to have these auto-launched.

Cheers,

Myles

Yep still for Duo, however I don't think it really matters to the API what backend 2FA solution is used.

Hi Guys,

We'd like to be able to filter the ScreenConnect object on Session Group Name, it's part of the Session Manager API from SC.

Ideally, the GetSessionGroups call would be used to pull back the list of Session Groups and these would then be user select-able in RDM (the same way the full list of sessions is available at the moment):

http://help.screenconnect.com/Session_Manager_API_Reference#GetSessionGroups.28.29

Then this could be used to pull back a list of available sessions within that group with GetSessions (so this would bring up the same select session window that RDM current does when it finds multiple matches for SC filters):

http://help.screenconnect.com/Session_Manager_API_Reference#GetSessions.28sessionGroupName.2C_variables.2C_additionalFilter.29

Thanks,

Myles