how to remote login Miztiik 5/16/2007 11:32:00 AM how to use rdp to connect to remote computer in vbs script. as of now the setup is like that STEP 1 :: from my computer run "mstsc" to other computer STEP 2 :: The remote computer, throws a security notice, i click "OK" to get thru STEP 3 :: I type the UID and PWD and click connect i am logged into the server. now i want to do this in a vbs

Re: how to remote login "Al Dunbar" <AlanDrub[ at ]hotmail.com.nospaam> 5/16/2007 5:56:27 PM "Miztiik" <Miztiik[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E8B9D1F9-113F-45E8-8C0B-CCB83B9845D0[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > how to use rdp to connect to remote computer in vbs script. > > as of now the setup is like that > STEP 1 :: from my computer run "mstsc" to other computer > STEP 2 :: The remote computer, throws a security notice, i click "OK" to > get > thru > STEP 3 :: I type the UID and PWD and click connect > i am logged into the server. > > now i want to do this in a vbs I doubt that mstsc will expose its methods in a COM object, so it might be that the only way to do this would involve sendkeys. That said, I am not too sure that this will work well. You should keep in mind that those nuisance keystrokes you want to automate are there for security purposes. Beware of embedding a password in any script, and beware of sendkey'ing a password, as the window with the focus can change. /Al

Re: how to remote login Miztiik 5/19/2007 1:23:01 AM yes i understand the problems in storing a password in a script and sending them thru send keys..both of which i am not doing mstsc in itself encrypts the password and stores it i a rdp file. given that all i need is to get thru the security notice from my script. any suggestions on that?

Re: how to remote login "Al Dunbar" <AlanDrub[ at ]hotmail.com.nospaam> 5/19/2007 3:41:17 AM "Miztiik" <Miztiik[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:10DA0994-18C7-4596-8237-8C0B796184CE[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > yes i understand the problems in storing a password in a script and > sending > them thru send keys..both of which i am not doing > > mstsc in itself encrypts the password and stores it i a rdp file. given > that > all i need is to get thru the security notice from my script. > > any suggestions on that? Not really. Unless mstsc provides a COM interface for scripts to manipulate individual elements (hey, I'd like to see the DOM for an RDP session), then I think you will need to use sendkeys or perhaps AutoIT or a similar utility. You say mstsc encrypts the password and stores it in a .rdp file local to the client. But just because it is not recognizable, does not imply strong encryption. And, even if it cannot be reversed, it (the .rdp file) could perhaps be stolen and used to logon remotely for some purpose other than what you have in mind. /Al

Re: how to remote login "Nut Cracker" <nutcracker[ at ]internationalhacker.org> 5/29/2007 11:02:46 PM "Miztiik" <Miztiik[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E8B9D1F9-113F-45E8-8C0B-CCB83B9845D0[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > how to use rdp to connect to remote computer in vbs script. > > as of now the setup is like that > STEP 1 :: from my computer run "mstsc" to other computer > STEP 2 :: The remote computer, throws a security notice, i click "OK" to > get > thru > STEP 3 :: I type the UID and PWD and click connect > i am logged into the server. > > now i want to do this in a vbs use the new RDP client, v.6 (i think) give it the credentials once, and when you get a successful connection, it stores the credentials for later use. Then all you have to do is run mstsc /v:<hostname> , or whatever, and it will automatically open for you. But then again ... you havent said what you are really trying to accomplish here. Could you give more detail?