Hello,
The company I work for has a virtual dedicated server (Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard)which employees access through a hyperlink on the company's webpage (a html document). It was set up this way about a year ago and has worked fine up until yesterday. Normally, when the link is clicked in IE, mstsc.exe launches with the settings from
the .RDP file. As of yesterday, it no longer launches but instead goes to a page displaying the text content of the .RDP file. Connecting to the server directly from the PC still works - it's only the link that isn't working. As far as I know, nothing has
changed on our end and I've spent all night trying to fix this, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I guess I should specify that this isn't an issue that only I am having - the same is happening for all users of the server - on many different
computers and over different networks.
This is the code contained in webserver.rdp: (IP address has been substituted with ***'s)
screen mode id:i:2desktopwidth:i:1280
desktopheight:i:800
session bpp:i:32
winposstr:s:0,1,97,0,994,484
compression:i:1
keyboardhook:i:2
displayconnectionbar:i:1
disable wallpaper:i:1
disable full window drag:i:1
allow desktop com:0
allow font smoothing:i:0
disable menu anims:i:1
disable themes:i:0
disable cursor setting:i:0
bitmapcachepersistenable:i:1
full address:s:**.**.***.***
audiomode:i:0
redirectprinters:i:1
redirectcomports:i:0
redirectsmartcards:i:1
redirectclipboard:i:1
redirectposdevices:i:0
autoreconnection enabled:i:1
authentication level:i:0
prompt for credentials:i:0
negotiate security layer:i:1
remoteapplicationmode:i:0
alternate shell:s:
shell working directory:s:
gatewayhostname:s:
gatewayusagemethod:i:4
gatewaycredentialssource:i:4
gatewayprofileusagemethod:i:0
promptcredentialonce:i:1
drivestoredirect:s:*
And the link code is:
<a href="webserver.rdp">Log In</a>