launching rdp connection from an aspx page

[squirrel]

I have an asp.net app that generates rdp connections on the fly. Once the rdp file is created, I want the application to open the file and start off the connection.

I initially tried this using system.diagnostics.process.start and tested it on a win2k server with no association for .rdp. Everything worked fine except it wouldnt launch the rdp for obvious reasons.

I then tested it on my home pc which runs winxp and the whole app worked perfectly. Back at work, however, it will not open the rdp files even on a server with the correct .rdp associations.

Does anybody have any idea of different techniques I can use to try and launch this file?

 

[Derek Stone]

As far as I know Windows 2000 has no means of reading or otherwise using a Remote Desktop file. This feature was introduced in Windows XP.

 

[squirrel]

Okay so tell me this, how am I able to run every session that I use at work through rdp sessions on a Win2k server?

Practically everything we use consists of vmware tools and we only have one or two physical servers.

The whole architecture is windows 2000.

If I have a file with a .rdp extension and double click on it, it opens the rdp connection up so why cant I automate this?