Hi,
thank you for the feedback and the feature request. This feature is already on our todo list but we cannot really tell when it will be available. As trivial this may seem, it's quite some work to make this a robust feature. But while we are here already, maybe you can help me to find the best way to implement that in Royal TS. Right now we are planning the following:
Any input from RoyalTS team?
Hi Stefan,
The ideas sounds great to me. :)
Thanks & regards
Matthias
Stefan,
Here's the scenario that I typically face this problem in.
I'm rebooting a machine and the connection is closed to the remote (windows server) PC. That's fine. However, now I'd like to have the option to "connect when the machine comes back online." I'm assuming this is done by continuous ping and that once the machine responds, an attempt is made to then RDP back in.
Either of your two scenarios works as well. I'd say, take a look at Devolutions RDM to see their implementation. Its simple and stays in the background. Its integrated with their command tasks. A small window pops up and shows a few lines about the host being online (tested by constant ping) and if it can remote in. You can see a spinning/loading icon where it is attempting to connect.
Hope this helps!
+1 on this feature, is there any ETA?
Thanks for your vote, Raffaele. There's still no ETA but we hope to have that in V5...
Regards,
Stefan
Thank you for the additional information, Jarel. This is very helpful!
When i try to connect to the server which is offline now there is no reconnect function ? Why? This could be the same timeout checkbox, let the royal ts try again and again until success?
Hi,
it is correct. The auto reconnect as of today needs at least one successful connection before this feature kicks in. This feature is intended to automatically reconnect in case it gets remotely disconnected. Having the auto reconnect enabled from the beginning is problematic because in case you have typo in the host name or so, you may not really know if you have a typo or if the host is down.
Regards,
Stefan
What the difference if this a typo o host is down ? This is unsuccessful connection in both cases))
But if you are sure, if the connection is not new - this function could be helpfull
The difference, especially for new and unexperienced users is the following:
Imagine you setup a connection with a wrong host name. Then you connect to it and you immediately get the auto reconnect screen as the host is not available because you entered the wrong one. The user may wait for a while until he investigates and possibly wastes a lot of time until he realizes that there's the wrong host configured. The user can easily get frustrated as the auto reconnect screen may imply that the host is just down and might be up soon.
If you want to have this also for the initial connection, I kindly ask you to file a new feature request to see how many users really want/need to have that. Then we can look into it and see how we can make this clear from a UX perspective that the frustration mentioned above can be avoided.
Regards,
Stefan
If this is a new connection no matter what error you get. It;s a sign to recheck the settings))
I think so, will fill the request.
Thanks for the feature request.
Bubihead
I want to connect to a RDP connection until it is successful (e.g. server restart). There is currently no way to do this (support says). So I want to do a feature request for a future version of RoyalTS.
Thanks
Matthias
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