filiphpetzall

Hey!

Revisiting this thread to see if something has happened, is there a fix for this to make it so it does not enter the RDP-session with "localhost" as clientname? I just tried and it seems to still be localhost and can't figure out how to change it, am I just missing the setting or is the change not yet implemented?

EDIT: I found the setting! This is just fantastic! Thank you so, so much for this feature, you guys are amazing!

Best Regards,

Filiph

Thanks Nicolas!

Wow, this is amazing news!! Do you know any timeframe for a solution, like are we talking weeks or years?

We've come across this problem because we need to find a solution as soon as possible so it would be nice to know what kind of time we're talking. I fully understand that you cannot promise anything specific, just asking approximately how long you might think it'll take you know, weeks, months or years.

Thanks again! Really appreciate this!

Yeah, well thats just the thing, there is none. Not in Remote Desktop 8 or in any sensible RDP-client for that matter. The only RDP-client that offer this option (that i've found) is the above mentioned "aFreeRDP".

Hi Nicolas and thanks for the reply!

No, that option seemingly does nothing in regards to the client name.

Im not too sure what happened here, I got an email stating that Samuel Dery replied to this thread but I cant find his reply here, thought I'd answer his questions here anyway;

Hello Samuel and thanks alot for the reply!

Im not at liberty to share screenshot of the problem inside the application since that contains sensetive data. But Im not alone having this problem, here's an old thread describing the issue; https://remotedesktop.uservoice.com/forums/272085-remote-desktop-for-android/suggestions/8120622-allow-entering-the-device-name-for-each-rdp-connec and some more info here: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/0b4bd006-7440-4c6a-8b3c-17ccea9600d8/microsoft-rdp-client-on-android-quotclientnamequot-its-not-correct?forum=winRDc and here: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/5abca2ed-131b-412e-8e63-97b7ee9ed5ec/change-android-device-name-using-rd-client-is-it-possible?forum=winRDc

The last link describes my problem the best, as far as I can tell at least (as mentioned, this is not my specific area of expertise). Basically; We have an app on the other side that requires the connecting clientname to be a set value (that we predefine inside that app). There can only be 1 device with the same clientname connected at the same time and thereby we need to be able to set clientname on each device (RDM client) so we can have multiple simultaneous connections.

The other RDP-clients ive tested is both of the Microsoft RDP apps "remote desktop 8" and "remote desktop", "aFreeRDP" (mentioned above that actually have this option but lack quite a few important features), "aRDP Free" is another one, and of course "RDM".

@filiphpetzall,

We will reply inside the new topic below since you have posted in 2 separate thread for the same question

https://forum.devolutions.net/topics/35259/edit-clientname-hostname-on-rdpconnection

Best regards,

Yes, so sorry! I noticed after this post that im on a thread about windows app so thought that posting a thread under android section was more appropriate, sorry again about my clumsyness!

Hello Maurice, and thank you so much for engaging!

Well, normally we'd use a windows mobile-device but we are switching to android. On windows mobile the client name would be the hostname of that handheld device. Same thing goes for when connecting from windows, on the remote destination your logins clientnamne will always be the hostname of your pc. But on android -for some reason- you can not use a unique id it allways gets set to (in my case model + osversion) TC5210, this wont work since were gonna have a few devices of the same model and all on the same os version. And after trying a few RDP-clients with no luck, "localhost" shows up in RDM, which leads me to believe that RDM is able to change the clientname, i just dont know if its editable for the user and if thats the case - where is the setting?

Since my post i've actually found an RDP-client that can manage to change the clientname, but that one seems... well lets just say its no where near as refined as RDM. Its called aFreeRDP and there you have Settings > Client > Client Name, whatever you put into here shows up as client name on the remote destination. but i hope that there's a setting in RDM that im yet to find so I dont have to use "aFreeRDP".

We're trying to use this to RDP with several devices, but the app we use on the other end needs a unique Clientname for each device using the application.Ive looked around to see if theres an option for this but i keep running around in circles and i cannot find useful info from googleing the issue because im not too sure im using the right terms here.

However, when I check Task Manager > users > Client name it says "localhost" this is the client name id like to change. Anyone know if theres an option for this?

Any help at all is greatly, greatly appreciated, and do let me know if you need more info and ill get back with as much as i can!

Thanks in advance!

UPDATE: If you are here for a solution to this - this has been resolved, see how to here: https://forum.devolutions.net/topics/35259/edit-clientname-hostname-on-rdpconnection#157163

Hello!

Im new to this platform and have not fiddled with RDP that much until now, so please forgive me for not understanding fully or asking stupid questions.

Im using an RDP-connection, clientname shows up as "localhost". I'd need a unique identifier (for each unit) for the clientname, is this possible? Either to generate upon connection (with device serialnumber or something), or as an alternative predefine clientname in the entry?

Cant seem to find an android RDP-client that can manage this, gone through like 4-5 different thus far and all have like model and OSversionID set as clientname and that wont work for my usecase. Any help would be greatly appreciated!