I had a long time item on my todo list to fix the Discovery form. The previous version did not respect the netmask as it should. For example for a 255.255.254.0 mask it was scanning the complete 255.255.0.0 network.
The full releasenotes:
- B: On Show click in tray menu, RDM was sent to front if already visible
- B: If no domain is set a \ was added in front of username in MSTSC connect dialog
- I: Improved netmask (read: will use the actual ip netmask) handling for RDP Discovery.
The new release can be downloaded at Sourceforge
Recently Microsoft updated it’s Remote Desktop Connection (also known as RDC or MSTSC). The RDP Protocol has been updated to version 6.1. The new version comes with Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows 2008 Server.
One of the changes they made is that /console is no longer there, instead /admin has to be used now to connect to the console session of a Windows 2003 or 2008 server.
The new RDM is compatible with the new RDC tool (as well as the older versions of course).
The full releasenotes:
- I: RDP 6.1 compatibility (Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, Windows 2008 Server).
- I: Upgraded solution to Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition (build target set to .NET 2.0).
- B: RDP Discovered hosts with multiple IP addresses (but resolving to the same name) are only added once.
The release can be downloaded at: Sourceforge.
Oh and btw, I did not skip versions 1.2 and 1.3 I just did not write a blog post about it.
Fixed some minor issues and added two new features:
- -start flag, if set image will be started after copy (has no effect if image was stopped by vmcopy tool).
- NOOP thread. Will send the NOOP command to the FTP server every 5 minutes. This prevents server disconnects on long (e.g. writing directory XML) inactivity.
New version can be downloaded here: VMWareCopy 0.3
VMWareCopy is a tool to backup VMWare images running on a MicrosoftWindows VMWare host. It’s designed to be used with VMWare Server andrequires a FTP server to backup the images to.The reason for FTP is simple: it’s way faster then a windows share.A quick sum of the features:
- Stop the image before copy and resume it afterwards (uses VMWare VIX).
- Write vmware image directory structure to file including file permissions.
- Calculate file hashes/checksums of type MD5 and SHA1.
- Verify the hash of an uploaded file (need support for SITE HASH command, currently available for Gene6 and SimpleFTP).
- Option to skip copy if none of the files has the Archive bit set.
Just run VMWareCopy without arguments to see all the command line options.Download exe, scripts and source: VMWareCopy 0.2
What is changed:
Uninstaller will first uninstall service.
Relative paths are send to the client (e.g. C:\Temp\mydir becomes /mydir).
Minor fixes.
For those who are interested. The server is based on LightFTPServer by Joel Pobar (http://callvirt.net/blog/). I used icons from the SilkIcons set by Mark James. Took some FileMonitor code from SathishVJ and basically copied the PasswordHash code from Jonathan Bailey.Downloads:SimpleFTP 0.2Simple FTP Src 0.2