Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session?

2012-09-10 Thread Vincent Teachout
Thanks, all, for the great suggestions! I'm going to take a 2 prong approach: The first time they open the form, I can at least get them to the \tsclient\users folder, since that is universal. After they locate their desktop for the first time, I'll store that path with their program login

Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session?

2012-09-07 Thread Alan Bourke
Are you trapping the user's email address anywhere - might it be easier to email them the report ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session?

2012-09-07 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 9/6/2012 6:13 PM, Vincent Teachout wrote: Michael Madigan wrote: Why are they saving it to their local desktop? Why not save it to a \\tsclient\foxpro reports or something like that? Convenience. There are 50 plus users, no local network, in 4 cities. So I'd need to create a folder on

Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session?

2012-09-07 Thread Michael Madigan
great idea. From: Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 6:08 AM Subject: Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session? Are you trapping the user's email address anywhere - might it be easier to email them

Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session?

2012-09-07 Thread Peter Cushing
Alan Bourke wrote: Are you trapping the user's email address anywhere - might it be easier to email them the report ? That's what we do here. When the user logs in we know their email address from the user table. Any reports have standard options to print (a list of system defined

Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session?

2012-09-07 Thread Michael Madigan
And there's a email trail too From: Peter Cushing pcush...@whisperingsmith.com To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 10:36 AM Subject: Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session? Alan Bourke wrote: Are you trapping the user's email address

Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session?

2012-09-06 Thread Vincent Teachout
I have a vfp app that users run via rdp. It's possible to generate a report, and save it to their local desktop, but it's a slow PITA to do it - they have to browse, select computer, select their local C: drive and not the rdp sessoin (training nightmare), wait until the list of their local

Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session?

2012-09-06 Thread Michael Madigan
to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session? I have a vfp app that users run via rdp.  It's possible to generate a report, and save it to their local desktop, but it's a slow PITA to do it - they have to browse, select computer, select their local C: drive and not the rdp sessoin (training nightmare

Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session?

2012-09-06 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 9/6/2012 5:12 PM, Vincent Teachout wrote: I have a vfp app that users run via rdp. It's possible to generate a report, and save it to their local desktop, but it's a slow PITA to do it - they have to browse, select computer, select their local C: drive and not the rdp sessoin (training

Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session?

2012-09-06 Thread Michael Madigan
You would have to pass it from the client to the server, however. From: MB Software Solutions, LLC mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 6:09 PM Subject: Re: Way to get LOCAL

Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session?

2012-09-06 Thread Vincent Teachout
Michael Madigan wrote: Why are they saving it to their local desktop? Why not save it to a \\tsclient\foxpro reports or something like that? Convenience. There are 50 plus users, no local network, in 4 cities. So I'd need to create a folder on each users desktop. And it would probably be

Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session?

2012-09-06 Thread Michael Madigan
What about a universal folder like \windows or \windows\temp? From: Vincent Teachout tea...@taconic.net To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 6:13 PM Subject: Re: Way to get LOCAL desktop to an RDP session? Michael Madigan