Remote Desktop allows you to share the clipboard. It even allows you to copy files through a copy and paste mechanism. However, remote assistance does not seem to allow you to do this. Microsoft has made many changes to remote assistance to simplify establishing the connection, however, once connected, I can’t even copy and paste … Read more
I am attempting to copy/paste files between Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 across a Remote Desktop connection (in the same domain, if it matters), but I am unable to successfully do so. I have followed instructions to enable clipboard sharing on the Windows Server 2003 machine by enabling the Network DDE, Network DDE DSDM, … Read more
I have two users experiencing this problem and I’ve gone through all the possible fixes I can find with no luck. I’m hoping someone has another idea. Here is the info to clarify the problem. 2 users recently got new laptops (Windows 7) and both noticed the problem only after getting the new laptops. When … Read more
If I connect to a server with RDP and share my clipboard with the server, are there any security risks of my clipboard being availble to other people logging onto the same server? e.g. I have a password saved in my local clipboard I connect to the server “example.com” using Remote Desktop, username “administrator“. My … Read more
On our Windows Server 2003 we host a MS-Access application (*.mdb), the users today were complaining that when they copied anything to the clipboard either to or from the RDP window, the clipboard was not being transferred. Most of our users are using Windows 7 64-bit. I tried the usual killing of the rdpclip.exe process … Read more
When our customers have a problem we usually connect to their server in order to investigate. Normally we use Remote Desktop or VNC for this. During this investigation I usually copy text between the server and my computer several times. For one new customer we are using Remote Desktop and Citrix. The customer has disabled … Read more
I am running iLO 4 .net remote console and need to do a lot of copy and pasting from my machine. How can I get my clipboard to share to the remote machine? Answer Strictly speaking, I don’t think its possible as iLO does not support the clipboard. But you may be able to save … Read more
At home I’ve got a central server with Windows 8.1 on it with some shared folders (hostname \SERVER). I also have two Windows 10 PCs that exange files with the server successfully and they also share folders. Then the fourth machine with Win XP cannot map other PCs folders, or better it cannot resolve hostnames, … Read more
We are using Microsoft Excel 2010 on Server NT. We log onto the server using remote desktop on our local machines. The excel file we are using has lists of clients, client details and trades that are needed on their jobs (we are builders) My problem is that when I finish a job and delete … Read more
I am trying to install a virtual machine in Hyper-V, using an ISO file laying on a Synology NAS share. But when i try to create the machine, and mount the ISO this pops up: The device ‘Microsoft:Hyper-V:Virtual CD/DVD Disk’ was not added to ‘MachineName’ But i can access the share fine with File Explorer. … Read more
