Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:32 PM
by
mamanze
Please don't change well established command line parameters
Urgh, sit down this afternoon to play some audio via my home server and get no love. Every attempt I made ended up with the RDP audio driver being used on the server.
Now, I always launch a connection via something like this:
> mstsc -v:server -console
That'll connect me to the console session on the server. When combined with a standard setting to "leave [audio] at remote computer", this lets me control Zune or whatnot remotely and have the audio played from the speakers connected to the server.
After quite a few attempts, and a server reboot, I go ahead and hook up a monitor and keyboard to the machine to see what's happening. Everything is fine on that end.
Go back to try the RDP connection again... wait a minute, connected, desktop comes up, but I haven't been logged out of my console session.
Then it strikes me that the UI for MSTSC seems a tad different. They must have changed it in SP1 RC, which I installed last night.
Turns out they changed more than the UI, they also changed the "console" flag to "admin".
Who's bright idea was this? At the very least, you could still support the old name without displaying it in the help.
Now I'm going to have to remember different flags for different machines. Lovely.