Conrad Sallian's community posts

Hello Ben,

Ok so you know when they go active they look like (see attached screenshot). This is because i am on their network now and directly connected. The Server connections is still showing idle even if i remote.

Unfortunately, this is not the case. Yes, they are online (which here means "available", "ready") and they should be in the "Idle" tab in your server panel.

When they are active (i.e. logged in) the thumbnails will either show a green monitor or a preview of the remote screen. And in this case they should be visible in the "Active" tab on the server.

prior the Connections would be online all the time with the server being able to switch to connect. When not on vpn, i cannot connect to them all of a sudden. I didnt change my firewall when it was working. I even have server port 5655 open so What else can i check to see why they dont connect off vpn. i didnt change any settings they just went offline and never connect anymore. Are there suppose to be additional ports open for agents to remote and show online when not directly connected. As you can see they can communicate to the server. They are idle.

If the hosts are in the idle list on your server that at least means that the "host -> server" leg of the connection works. However, if you cannot connect (and you see the connection items as "offline" in your Viewer) that means that it is the Viewer that can't communicate with your server due to some reason.

If this happens while your Viewer computer is on a VPN you should make sure that you can access your self-hosted server from that network. This might be the real reason for the issue, and not the hosts or the server.

Hello Patrick,

Thank you for your message.

I set up RU Host 6.10 on two users' computers. Under Internet -ID connection in settings, it shows status as "Ready for connection". However, the icon does not have a blue dot on it.

We no longer use a blue dot. Instead the Host icon can either be grey (no connection) or blue (connection ok). It turns red when there is an active session, i.e. someone's being connected to that Host.

When I try connecting over my Viewer, it initially shows as being as online, and then it goes offline once I try clicking on it. For what it's worth, my viewer is an older version of RU (6.5 I believe). I'm not sure if that's a factor here.

You should update both parts - Viewer and Host - to the most recent version. As of this writing it is 6.10.10.0.

Hope that helps.

Hello Ben,

I"m afraid I misunderstood your initial post, sorry for that. Actually, idle here just means that a Host is waiting for connection (there is no active remote session with that Host). Whereas a Host is moved to the Active tab whenever you start a remote session with that Host (i.e. open/start at least one of the available connection modes or simply log on).

Hope that helps.

Hello Martin,

Thank you for your message.

First of all, it's a bad idea to write to the "C:\Program Files(x86)\Remote .." in general. We have a centralized folder for any log files and it would be great, if RU could also store his files there.

Your suggestion has been added to our wishlist.

I was not able to find a setting: If i quit the current session to a remote computer, the RU client should automatically log off or lock the computer.

You can find these options in the connection properties -> Additional properties tab.

Thanks.

Hi David,

normally, i never enable 'remember me' but on this forum it seems to be working.

Good, thanks.

more importantly, i posted to the forum and opened a ticket about RU modifying the .rdp before connection.

Yes, I sent you a reply via the tickets.

Hi David,

Sorry for the late reply. It took some time to investigate the issue. I responded via the ticket that you created.

Thanks.

Hello Kubris,

One of the reasons this might be happening is that these key combinations are intercepted on a lower level by different software (or some driver utilities, those for your graphics card).

Other remote desktop apps, such as the one built into Windows, [censored] , etc... pass all KB shortcuts by default (except for Ctrl+Alt+Delete, obviously) - so having that not work in Remote Utilities was a surprise.

Could you reproduce the problem with other software on the same local and remote computers where Remote Utilities is installed? Please, note that issues of this kind are machine-specific - what happens on one machine won't necessarily happen on another.

Hello Ben,

Thank you for your message.

I would recommend to restart your server to see if the problem persists. Or at least restart the server service (see Configuration -> Service state tab)

I can see that your server version is slightly outdated. I highly recommend that you update the server to 2.8.2.0 which is the latest version up to date (you can download it here) especially given the fact that you have the most recent RU version.

David,

Also , please make sure that you enable "Remember me on this computer" check box when you log in.

Hello Stephen,

Please, update Remote Utilities to the most recent version which is 6.10.10.0.