> Our school wants me to work remotely over Christmas break for > 5 weeks. I am trying to setup RDS to be able to connect remotely. > I have a few questions: Is the RDS password the same as the studio > and server admin password?
No, there's a separate password for RDS. It's often set to be the same as the CF Admin password, though, and when you install CF 5, you have the option to set both passwords to the same value, although in any case you can later change one or the other in the CF Administrator. > If the machine I am connecting to has mapped drives on an NT > domain, will I be able to see those when I connect through RDS? By default, no. When you install CF, both the Cold Fusion Application Server and the ColdFusion RDS Service are set to run as SYSTEM, which has no network rights. You can configure the CF server to have network rights by setting it to run as a different user (described very well at http://www.defusion.com/articles/index.cfm?ArticleID=89). To be perfectly honest, I don't know if the RDS service would itself have to be similarly reconfigured, because I've never tried. I don't think RDS is especially secure, by default, and wouldn't recommend running it on a production server. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
