Save Password in RDC icon and give to mulit users

[Ferrell Ramey]

I'd like to create a RDC icon that has the user name, password, and settings
all saved in it and copy it to multiple user desktops, but when I do this and
the user clicks on the icon it asks for their password.

Any ideas? Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way? All users log into
the terminal server with the exact same settings (e.g. user name, password,
etc). I'd just like to push an icon to each of their desktops instead of
going to each workstaion and creating it.

By the way, is there a way to change the icon when you do a "save as" on the
settings? It by default has the regular RDC icon, and in the properties I
don't see the "change icon" setting.
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Thanks!

Ferrell

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Save Password in RDC icon and give to mulit users

This is by design. For security reasons, the password is encrypted
in such a way that only the same user, on the same machine, can
decrypt it.
Just teach the users that they type in their password on first
connection, and save it into the rdp file.

Alternatively, if all users are using the same account and
password, you can set the username and password in Terminal
Services Configuration.

Be sure to uncheck "Always prompt for password", no matter which
way you do it.

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Vera Noest
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<FerrellRamey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 13 jul 2007 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> I'd like to create a RDC icon that has the user name, password,
> and settings all saved in it and copy it to multiple user
> desktops, but when I do this and the user clicks on the icon it
> asks for their password.
>
> Any ideas? Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way? All users
> log into the terminal server with the exact same settings (e.g.
> user name, password, etc). I'd just like to push an icon to
> each of their desktops instead of going to each workstaion and
> creating it.
>
> By the way, is there a way to change the icon when you do a
> "save as" on the settings? It by default has the regular RDC
> icon, and in the properties I don't see the "change icon"
> setting.