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can't paste text to remote desktop
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:53 pm
by Burrito
On one of my windows servers I can't paste text from my machine to the server using remote desktop (terminal services). Does anyone know if there is a setting that I need to change to allow this? This is the first server that I've not been able to do this with

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:02 pm
by Burrito
nevermind.
you need to start the rdpclip service if it's not running...now I need to figure out why it wasn't running

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:43 pm
by daedalus__
I wish I had known that a few months ago.

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:27 am
by Kieran Huggins
I've had good results with UltraVNC as well.. might be worth trying (not that you have a problem to solve anymore... it's just worth trying

)
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:02 am
by Jenk
We had similar problems to this a while ago, but instead of it being a direct remote connection, it was a remote, remote connection. (i.e. remote desktop to server 1, then from server 1, remote desktop to server 2. Couldn't c+p from localmachine to server2) So we c+p from localmachine into notepad on server 1, then c+p from that to server 2

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:50 am
by RobertGonzalez
Kieran Huggins wrote:I've had good results with UltraVNC as well.. might be worth trying (not that you have a problem to solve anymore... it's just worth trying

)
UltraVNC is slower than molasses for me. Right now I use a Cisco VPN client and remote desktop in to my machine. It is faster than would be expected, although that issue of rearranging your desktop and locking your start bar kinda sucks...
I need to look into what Burrito suggested because I need to that from time to time and end up FTP'ing up to my own server from the remote desktop then FTP'ing down from the remote desktop to my local machine.
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:22 am
by Burrito
Everah wrote:I need to look into what Burrito suggested because I need to that from time to time and end up FTP'ing up to my own server from the remote desktop then FTP'ing down from the remote desktop to my local machine.
it doesn't work for copying and pasting files...just text.
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:38 am
by RobertGonzalez
Well, looks my FireFTP Firefox extension is going to continue to be my shared files savior. It's all good.