Howto hyperlink to remote desktop

[David Lewis]

I'd like to make a hyperlink to connect to a remote desktop server
How can I do this?

 

[Steve Easton]

Where might this remote desktop server be located??

WAN, LAN or Internet??

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[David Lewis]

LAN


"Steve Easton" <[email protected]>
|>Where might this remote desktop server be located??
|>
|>WAN, LAN or Internet??

 

[Steve Easton]

1 of 2 ways:
Either VIA IP address or Machine name
Considering you said "desktop server" it would be IP address

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[David Lewis]

what?

I need to know how to make a hyperlink for a web page that will launch the remote desktop client and connect to a
terminal server

such as http://192.168.168.10:3389
or
"C:\Program Files\Remote Desktop\mstsc.exe" server.rdp
or
file:///C:/Program%20Files/Remote%20Desktop/mstsc.exe%20//intranet/server.rdp

but that will not work

"Steve Easton" <[email protected]>
|>1 of 2 ways:
|>Either VIA IP address or Machine name
|>Considering you said "desktop server" it would be IP address

 

[Steve Easton]

That won't work because you can't launch an executable via a html document.

You could probable do what you want using an .hta document because a hta can have system
privileges.

what?

I need to know how to make a hyperlink for a web page that will launch the remote

desktop client and connect to a

 

[David Lewis]

what's an .hta document?

"Steve Easton" <[email protected]>
|>That won't work because you can't launch an executable via a html document.
|>
|>You could probable do what you want using an .hta document because a hta can have system
|>privileges.
|>
|>
|>
|>|>> what?
|>>
|>> I need to know how to make a hyperlink for a web page that will launch the remote
|>desktop client and connect to a
|>> terminal server
|>>
|>> such as http://192.168.168.10:3389
|>> or
|>> "C:\Program Files\Remote Desktop\mstsc.exe" server.rdp
|>> or
|>> file:///C:/Program%20Files/Remote%20Desktop/mstsc.exe%20//intranet/server.rdp
|>>
|>> but that will not work
|>>
|>> "Steve Easton" <[email protected]>
|>> |>1 of 2 ways:
|>> |>Either VIA IP address or Machine name
|>> |>Considering you said "desktop server" it would be IP address
|>>
|>

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/hta/overview/htaoverview.asp and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...omponents/htc/reference/htcref.asp?frame=true

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| what's an .hta document?
|
| "Steve Easton" <[email protected]>
||>That won't work because you can't launch an executable via a html document.
||>
||>You could probable do what you want using an .hta document because a hta can have system
||>privileges.
||>
||>
||>
||>||>> what?
||>>
||>> I need to know how to make a hyperlink for a web page that will launch the remote
||>desktop client and connect to a
||>> terminal server
||>>
||>> such as http://192.168.168.10:3389
||>> or
||>> "C:\Program Files\Remote Desktop\mstsc.exe" server.rdp
||>> or
||>> file:///C:/Program%20Files/Remote%20Desktop/mstsc.exe%20//intranet/server.rdp
||>>
||>> but that will not work
||>>
||>> "Steve Easton" <[email protected]>
||>> |>1 of 2 ways:
||>> |>Either VIA IP address or Machine name
||>> |>Considering you said "desktop server" it would be IP address
||>>
||>
|

 

[dixxie]

Hi David, I was looking for something similar and just came across this which may be of help?

http://www.jjclements.co.uk/2010/02/21/rdp-hyperlink

There is also a link on creating a hyperlink for other programs as well:

http://www.jjclements.co.uk/2010/03/13/ssh-scp-hyperlink