Royal Apps

I wonder if we might be able to get an alternative RDP plugin for Royal TS on Windows vs. the one based on native Windows RDP? Maybe something based on FreeRDP like in Royal TSX?

Why? A few reasons. One, the native Windows plugin doesn't support folder redirection...only full drive redirection. I'd rather just share my downloads folder with the shared terminal server, and not my whole C drive, thanks! Also, while this may be more of a bug that I consider a feature, FreeRDP ignores the server side setting requiring people to manually type a password. It's super annoying on my Windows machine to have to log in again manually every time I resize the window or change monitors, while on my Mac I can just do that without thinking because the app will automatically log in for me with a saved password.

Also, it might just be me, but FreeRDP seems quite a bit faster than the native Windows RDP plugin. That might be apples to oranges and my Mac is just faster, but it's good to have choice I think.

I also wished there was SOCKS support for RDP in Royal TS for Windows. This has been asked for for quite some time. For me an alternative would be to allow overrides of the target host and port at connection time similar to the dynamic credentials which allow you to determine the login credentials at connection time but there does not seem to be any way to do that as well.

I think the lack of comments on this thread is not 100% representative of demand for this feature.

When I discovered the proxy configuration in Royal TSX (mac client), I was s positively surprised. Mainly as I had no idea that it was at all possible to connect RDP over a Socks5 proxy.

Since then, I have been using it extensively as a connection concentrator (to simplify firewall configurations, and to better track connections on the proxy server side).

A couple of weeks ago, I pushed the engineered solution, a jumphost installed as an Ubuntu server installation with:

* sniproxy

* danted (socks proxy)

* openssh (default installation)

With that setup, we could limit the access over VPN to just that jumphost server.

But when our windows based engineers started to use it, we realized that the proxy configuration is missing in the Royal TS (windows client).

So, the lack of interest is probably more a lack of marketing of the possibilities.

If it is possible to implement this as a FreeRDP plugin, that would most likely be enough for us.

Thanks for an otherwise very good product.

sorry key information to add - Sometimes it actually hangs my RoyalTS V7 until I kill the wfreerdp.exe child process.

No worries. Thanks for your efforts. Update this post when it's ready.

I am also interested in SOCKS5 proxy support. Apparently the Mac version supports http and SOCKS5 proxies so I wonder if it also works with the Windows version. So far I am unable to find the options to configure the proxy. I have not tried to generate an entry using Dynamic Folders but I guess that would not work.

Is there any documentation for the FreeRDP plugin?

I would like to see if it is possible to set up a SOCKS configuration (like I do in Royal TSX).

I also have the minimized FreeRDP window issue in my test installation.

Hiya,

Yep same odd issues when using FreeRDP plugin too, will just get the minimized freerdp window inside RoyalTS, although it thinks its connected.

Setup is Windows 11 remoting to various Server OS (2019/2022). I see it creates the wfreerdp.exe in user profile appdata temp, if i delete this file and reconnect then it usually works again ok.

Thanks

I saw there was a beta. The FreeRDP plugin doesn't work quite right for me yet. (No criticism; I know this is just a beta.)

When I connect (according to the log: successfully), I get a little titlebar in the bottom-left of the tab with the hostname of the connection. But the rest of the tab is blank, and I can't close the tab. Or the window. I have to force-close from Task Manager. I've dropped back to the Windows RDP plugin for the moment.