Causing a Browser window to open on enduser's PC while in TS?

[dudeDad]

I need to implement the following behavior. Is it possible?

1) User in active RDP/TS session clicks on a URL (that I control - it is on
Active Desktop wallpaper)

2) That action is displayed in the browser on the user's PC, not on the TS's
browser.

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Longer description:
W2K3 TS/ Assume RDC client 5

1) User opens browser on his PC
2) Goes to URL on my webserver (running on LAMP)
3) Clicks on a url that downloads an RDP File AND leaves the existing
browser window open (important... this window can be used as the target
later on)
4) RDP session comes up and the user is logged in
5) On the Active Desktop Wallpaper, there is a link
6) The user clicks on that link and a the page opens *NOT* in the TS's
browser, but back on the browser on the users PC.

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Proof of concept:

go to http://tinyurl.com/54ruy5
click one of the links in the middle of the page
Accept the downloaded RDP file
Click OK on the RDC client to connect
Find look for"Buy Now" or "Download Now" links...( Links are not actually
active at the moment.. but these are the links that I want to have opened on
the user's PC's browser so that the affiliate cookies are set on that PC
instead of on my TS)

Thanks in advance.

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Causing a Browser window to open on enduser's PC while in TS?

This is called "content redirection" and it's not a native feature
of Windows TS.
This is included in Citrix, and you can also achieve it with
TSRemoteExec - a freeware utility to execute any command on the
local client from within a remote session, by Thomas Tran
http://www.mqtechnologies.com/products/TSRemoteExec/

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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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=?Utf-8?B?ZHVkZURhZA==?= <dudeDad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
on 15 maj 2008:

> I need to implement the following behavior. Is it possible?
>
> 1) User in active RDP/TS session clicks on a URL (that I control
> - it is on Active Desktop wallpaper)
>
> 2) That action is displayed in the browser on the user's PC, not
> on the TS's browser.
>
> -------
> Longer description:
> W2K3 TS/ Assume RDC client 5
>
> 1) User opens browser on his PC
> 2) Goes to URL on my webserver (running on LAMP)
> 3) Clicks on a url that downloads an RDP File AND leaves the
> existing browser window open (important... this window can be
> used as the target later on)
> 4) RDP session comes up and the user is logged in
> 5) On the Active Desktop Wallpaper, there is a link
> 6) The user clicks on that link and a the page opens *NOT* in
> the TS's browser, but back on the browser on the users PC.
>
> --------
> Proof of concept:
>
> go to http://tinyurl.com/54ruy5
> click one of the links in the middle of the page
> Accept the downloaded RDP file
> Click OK on the RDC client to connect
> Find look for"Buy Now" or "Download Now" links...( Links are not
> actually active at the moment.. but these are the links that I
> want to have opened on the user's PC's browser so that the
> affiliate cookies are set on that PC instead of on my TS)
>
> Thanks in advance.