> > Well, the reason is simply that I cannot install software on our > > machines myself. Therefore I want to install as little software on > > those machines as possible, as for every piece of software I have > > to go through the installation steps with our IT department. They > > for sure would install pageant as well, but it's just easier for > > all of us if there's just one .exe to execute, rather than two of > > them. And we probably won't run PuTTY etc. on those machines. > > Weeeell, there's no need to "install" anything at all. While both > X2GoClient and PuTTY come with installers, you can also just copy all > the files to a directory of your choice (say, a network share) and > start them from there. > > You could, for example, install X2GoClient on a test machine, then copy > the contents of C:\Program Files\x2goclient (or whatever you picked as > destination) to a network share, say, \\server\share\x2goclient, drop > pageant.exe from PuTTY in there as well, and add a little batch file > that runs pageant, adds the key, waits a few seconds, then runs > x2goclient. > > That way, all you have to roll out is a shortcut (*.lnk) file pointing > to the batch file on \\server\share\x2goclient. No client-side > installation at all. > > Of course, you could also try to use %userprofile% in the ssh keyfile > path within the session config, but I've never tried if that works as > intended, so no promises. > OK, this is quite a smart solution. Thank you a lot for your inputs, I really appreciate it. Just, as we have already installed the client (the .exe-way), and because we're still undecided about introducing X2Go at all, I'll stick to pointing to the key file directly, at least for the moment. I actually don't even need to use the %userprofile% variable, as the userprofile directory is mapped to a drive letter. What I'm working on right now is finding the best way to provide pre-defined sessions to our users. I probably got one more question, will ask in a new thread.
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