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38 Appendix A
RDP Connect Options
Table 12 contains the supported options you can use for RDP connections.
Example:
CONNECT=RDP \
Host=10.150.123.35 \
Description="RDP_Server" \
AutoConnect=yes \
Colors=16m \
Username=Administrator \
Password=Password \
Domainname=$DN \
Resolution=800x600 \
Directory=C:\Windows \
Command="C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe"
Reconnect=no \
Drives=J=disk \
Drives=k=floppy \
Sound=off \
LocalCopy=Yes
Table 12 RDP Connect Options
Option Description
AutoConnect={no, yes} Yes/no option to start a connection automatically at
sign-on.
Colors={256, 64k, High, 16m} Specifies the session color mode. For faster display
performance, use 256 colors.
Default = 64k or High (these options are the same).
Compression Level=<value allowed
by GUI>
Select a compression level for encoding.
Command=start command Lists a string of commands to be executed after
logging on to the server. The maximum is 127
characters.
Description=string description Connection description. Provides a connection name
for the Desktop icon and the Connection Manager.
CAUTION: The text must be enclosed in double
quotation marks if it contains spaces or punctuation
characters. These characters are not allowed: & ‘ “ $ ? !
| ; ( ) [ ] { } \
Directory=working directory Specifies a directory to be used as the working
directory after logging on to the server. The maximum
is 63 characters.
DisablePanelInFullscreen={yes, no} Yes/no option to disable the panel on the local system
when the RDP connection is launched in fullscreen.
This values of this parameter will be applied if the
connection is set to Fullscreen=yes.
If this parameter is not used in the connection
definition, the panel will remain active in auto-hide
mode (that is the user can display the panel by moving
the mouse pointer over the hidded panel; for
example, the top of the screen).
DomainName={Windows domain
name, $DN}
Specifies the domain name in a Windows network.
$DN specifies that the thin client sign-on domain
name is used.