Drag and drop files onto RDP

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noob question.. How do you set up to where you can "drag and drop" files from your local OS onto your RDP OS as seen in my awesome mspaint drawing? I am fairly familiar with the group policy editor and im sure its something in there that will enable it for me, but I'm not sure what I am looking for. Im sure its not listed under "drag and drop" :p

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As far as I know, the feature does not exist for any version of the Microsoft RDC.
 
I swear I have seen people do it, but maybe I was just seeing things. Its kinda like just sharing the clipboard... just with files :D
 
You probably saw VNC or something similar for Remote Desktops... or a VMWare window.

RDP by itself only lets you connect to existing drives, but not drag and drop like you are trying to do.

It also seems slow but.. at least it works.
 
open remote desktop "mstsc.exe", select options, select options, go to "local resources" select "more", check drives. When you connect they'll show up in explorer, sheesh, what's wrong with that?
 
Rabidfox said:
open remote desktop "mstsc.exe", select options, select options, go to "local resources" select "more", check drives. When you connect they'll show up in explorer, sheesh, what's wrong with that?
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Which is what was covered in the link provided - if you read it.

Also, this topic has nothing to do with virtualization.
 
1) he said for vista or better, which is not true.
2) exactly, why is this in virtualization?
 
Damn, I thought the [H] had a wealth of knowledge...

Yeah you can drag and drop files in/ out of an RDP session easily by enabling clipboard sharing (Local Resources -> Clipboard checkbox). This requires RDP version 6.2, so is available of Vista/ Svr08 and up.

PS: File redirection is cool too, both of these have their pros/ cons, so use both!
 
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