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I'm in front of a thin client capable of running mstsc.exe, which I use to connect to a couple of remote systems.
Each individual RDP-session works fine, but each creates a full Windows desktop of its own -- application windows running in the different sessions can not interact and aren't even aware of each other.
Even the copy-pasting from one such desktop into another is impossible (yes, the "Clipboard" checkbox in mstsc.exe is enabled).
I'd like to be able to mix individual applications from different systems on the same desktop instead -- the way one can mix X11-clients from multiple servers connecting to the same X11-server.
I seem to recall the Remote Desktop Protocol allowing for this, but I can't figure out, how to do it...
Update: using the remoteapplication-method I can invoke an individual application on a remote server instead of the default shell. The application (tested with firefox) comes up as its own window and makes no attempt to replace the local desktop with itself. Is there, perhaps, some alternative to Windows default shell, that would behave the way I want it to?
Mikhail T.
Posted 2018-06-20T13:46:05.700
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I am not aware of any RDP solution that would allow individual RDP sessions to interact with one another. Typical the only integration is between the host and the RDP session. – Ramhound – 2018-06-20T13:54:37.120
Well, Ok, they don't have to "interact" -- beyond copy/pasting -- but the applications running in each session should just share the desktop, rather than be themselves confined to the bigger "RDP-session" window... – Mikhail T. – 2018-06-20T20:40:47.667
Have you looked at RemoteApp (part of RDS)? It allows the user to "stream" an application from a remote computer and make it look as if it is running locally. More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Services#RemoteApp
– cdavid – 2018-06-21T16:17:14.970@cdavid, not only have I looked at RemoteApp, I mention this in my question. Trouble is, I can only invoke one application this way... – Mikhail T. – 2018-06-21T18:12:24.800