RaWeb Some Confution

[techandtips86]

Hello, Just I used today your RaWeb and Remote apptool, But when I used Raweb tool from client maching and click on icon just dwonload RDP file, Not opening app from Remote server, is it posible dont need dwonload file to client machine just open this application without dwonload RDF file.

Referece Softaware application 👍
https://priyaminfosystems.com/connect21/

2nd option is

[MrBrianGale]

TECHNICALLY you don't need to download the file to the client machine, but you need to get the RDP file to the client somehow. Otherwise how will your RDP application know what connection configuration to use?
Other options you have (that I can think of) are:
1- have the end user write the RDP file on their own
2- instead of download, put the file on a USB drive and share it that way
3- create an "application launcher" tool that can download and run the RDP file for the end user without them needing to download anything

But the client NEEDS the .rdp file in order to access the remote resources. Unless I am misreading what you are asking, what you want doesn't make sense to me.

[techandtips86]

Hello,
Sir Thank you for quick reply. I think I couldn't explain myself well enough to you, I have send a link of a software, this is also same web interface, if you have a little time please go through this software's, but not need to download any thing for client. he can all softare in his dashboard, and when click this icon automatically open this software in web interface.,

I also send a video link also this is other company software this is also like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93sfsIrEmqU

https://priyaminfosystems.com/connect21/

Thank you
Mriganka
India.

[MrBrianGale]

My opinion - that is not what this FREE tool is designed for. RaWeb is designed to be a web host alternative to using Microsoft's tool for remote application hosting and RemoteAppTool is designed to be an alternative to Microsoft's configuration for the remote application hosting.
What you linked appears to be an application to handle remote app hosting that may or may not be using the RDP protocol. What you found is a neat tool, but is outside the scope of RaWeb and RemoteAppTool. Both RaWeb and RemoteAppTool are server-side tools, what you are showing is a client side tool. IF that tool is a client-side tool for remote apps and relies on the RDP protocol for it to work AND for either Microsoft Remote Apps or RaWeb/RemoteAppTool to be set up server side, then in the background, that tool is downloading the RDP file and starting MSTSC (Microsoft Terminal Server Connection, the default built in RDP client) to run things.

I think if you want that functionality, you have 3 options:
1- buy a license for connect21
2- write your own tool to handle the client side RDP
3- hope someone else has a similar free tool they can build for you

RaWeb and RemoteAppTool both do not support what you are asking for and adding it in is not possible as these are both server side tools. A brand new tool would need to be created for this which is a non-trivial amount of work to do. You may find someone who is willing to develop it (Kimm Knight may even do it), but it is outside the scope of both RaWeb and RemoteAppTool.

Does what I said make sense? If so, I will close this issue as "Won't Fix" as it is not a feature of a server-side tool, but is a brand new client side tool.

[kimmknight]

I might have misinterpreted the request, but I think what @techandtips86 is wanting is for MSTSC on the client to automatically open the RDP file once downloaded.

I think most people achieve this by selecting "Always open .rdp files" in their browser the first time an RDP file downloads. Yes, this is some client-side configuration, however, it is minimal.

It's been a long time since I've used Microsoft's RDWeb, however, if I remember correctly, it manages to open the RDP file immediately on the client with no configuration required. It is possible that it was so long ago that last time I used it, I was using Internet Explorer as the browser, so it may have used some proprietary trick to get the RDP to launch with no configuration.

I need to test RDWeb with a modern browser to check this behaviour. If it somehow manages to launch the RDP file without any user interaction or client configuration, then I'd be interested to investigate how it does it and see if that's something that RAWeb could do too.