SecuredSettingsEnabled always returning false (-1)

[Mike Lenyon]

hi all,

i hope everyone else is able to get work off their minds on this fine labor
day weekend .

i'm developing a web app that provides a remote desktop connection to a
terminal server. i'm testing it by using my windows xp pro system as the
server. i can connect to it just fine. it's working quite nicely. but i'm
required to also launch a particular app when the user logs in. i found
instructions on how to do that, but i can't seem to make it work. whenever
i check the SecuredSettingsEnabled property, i always get -1 returned. and,
of course, i've also tried calling SecuredSettings.StartProgram to launch
the app, but that won't work either.

how do i enable secured settings so that the StartProgram call works?

thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I'm not a programmer, so I can't give a good technical answer here, but:

My understanding is that the ability to specify that a particular app be run
on connection isn't present in the XP implementation of Terminal Services.

So--this just plain may not be an effective test bed for your application,
I'm afraid.

 

[Mike Lenyon]

thanks so much for your input, bill. i suspected that was the case. i just
haven't had a win2k server machine available to test on yet. i'll try it
out (after the holiday, of course) and post my findings.

--
Mike Lenyon

I'm not a programmer, so I can't give a good technical answer here, but:

My understanding is that the ability to specify that a particular app be run
on connection isn't present in the XP implementation of Terminal Services.

So--this just plain may not be an effective test bed for your application,
I'm afraid.

 

[Mike Lenyon]

i've also tried this on a win2k server system with no success. is there
something i need to configure on the server? or should i somehow get a
newer version of terminal services on the server?

i'm using the latest client software: the rdp client active-x control.

any ideas?

thanks.

--
Mike Lenyon

thanks so much for your input, bill. i suspected that was the case. i just
haven't had a win2k server machine available to test on yet. i'll try it
out (after the holiday, of course) and post my findings.