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It’s bin a while since the last release. I incorporated the RDPDiscovery code so you can now have RDM discover all hosts in your LAN (depending on your netmask this might take some time).
The other new feature is an experimental trayicon. It allows you to connect to RDP servers from the tray menu. I added an option to minimize RDM to tray on exit.
Release notes:
N: Added LAN RDP Server discovery
N: Added trayicon for quick access to hosts
I: Ask to delete all child notes when deleting a non-empty group
B: Dublicate button did not copy all options
The release can be downloaded at: Sourceforge.
On a site-note: I did not implement all requested features (yet) and I know it’s time for an manual (not all options are intuitive enough to discover while using the application). So please stay tuned for the next release.
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I created a little tool to discover Windows machines on a local network with RDP/Remote Desktop enabled. This tool will be integrated in the next RemoteDesktopManager version.
Just run the tool. Let it discover all available machines, uncheck the ones you don’t want. Play with the RDP options available and hit save. Provide an location on disk and the tool will create standard RDP (mstsc compatible) files with the extra options used by RemoteDesktopManager.
If you want to use the files in RDM just select them, start RDM and drop the files on it.
Downloads: RDPDiscovery Exe, RDPDiscovery Source
For the curieus: I used the .NET Ping class to find-out if a machine is running and then try to open an socket on port 3389 to see if RDP is running. Without the use of the Ping class, you will only discover some hosts as Windows (from XP SP2) has some “security” feature build-in to block portscans.
Credits go to Ami Bar for the SmartThreadPool code I used.