RDP Start a Program Not Working

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Jared Holzman

Hello,

I am trying to write a maintenance tool for our XPE device
and it would be handy to be able to connect to the device
with Remote Desktop and have it automatically start the
maintenance tool on login, however I can't seem to get this
to work. While the start a program option in remote desktop
client works fine when connecting to an XP Professional
machine it does not load the program on the XP Embedded
machine. I assume this is because of something that is not
installed in our XP Embedded image, but I have been unable
to determine what. Note that Remote Desktop does work, it
just doesn't run the program it's supposed to. Any help
would be appreciated,

Regards
Jared Holzman
MRX Technologies

jhzATmrxtechDOTcomDOTau
 
Hi

I'm not sure if I understand, are you connecting to the WinXPe build via RDP
from another PC and trying to run an application on the WinXPe build from
the RDP connection?

Hope that makes sense.

Wayne
 
Exactly. We thought it would be a good idea if the
maintenance tool does not reside on the XPe machine so it
could be updated easily. So the plan was to use RDP to
mount the local drives (local to the external pc) on the
WinXPe machine and then have the WinXPe machine
automatically run the maintenance tool from the mounted
remote drives (remote to the WinXPe machine, local to the
external pc). But although the drives mount quite happily
and are available under the \\tsclient network path, the
tool does not execute. I originally thought that maybe RDP
doesn't support automatically running a program from a rdp
mounted drive, but it does work under windows xp and in
fact the winXPe machines can't even automatically start
notepad with Remote Desktop, so there's something wrong there.
 
Hi still

Not sure if I compelety understand, if your tools won't run is it a path
issues, does it support UNC? You could simulate what you are trying to
acheieve using two WinXP pc's (and RDP) and see if it works. If does then
something is missing from your XPe build, if it doesn't maybe it's your
app/util.

HTH.
 
Already tried. It works fine when using two WinXP machines
and, as I said, RDP can't even automatically start notepad
(which is installed) on WinXPe. I agree that something is
missing from the WinXPe install, but what? I have no idea
what components are required for RDP's start a program option.
 
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