Feature Request: Open RDP connections to show Xpipe connection name rather than Host/IP

[cmacneill53]

Currently open RDP connections show the IP address rather than the connection name, can this be changed to be the Xpipe connection name? I guess it might be an issue with how Xpipe interacts with the underlying Remmina RDP Client?

Not a big problem when I'm accessing servers, as I tend to recognise the IPs, but when accessing user workstations I don't always recognise which IP is which, as they tend to be randomly allocated by DHCP, so harder to know which connection is which when multiple are open.

I guess it could be solved by using FQDN hostnames, but that would require some "glue" to extract internal A records and publish to external DNS. The customers' DNS servers are split between internal, dynamically populated by Windows Domain Active Directory and external for static public access.

[crschnick]

I will have to experiment a bit on how much is possible with remmina here

[crschnick]

You can try whether https://github.com/xpipe-io/xpipe-ptb works for you better. I was able to improve some remmina things for simple RDP connections, i.e. ones without custom added rdp options

[cmacneill53]

I installed PTB version, but I don't see any difference. The connection label is still the IP address, not the Xpipe connection name.

[crschnick]

So this feature is still in development. It's only working for RDP tunnel connections right now in the latest PTB build

[cmacneill53]

When I use the Remmina Client natively, I can define a connection in there. When I open the connection within Remmina the screen label is then the Remmina Connection Name rather than the Host name or IP.

I can't see anything in the RDP URI schema that would allow passing an arbitrary connection name. So this may have to be done in two stages, i.e. have Xpipe create/update a connection profile in Remmina and then use it to open a session.

I'll experiment with using the RDP connection file option in Xpipe, that might give me the features I'm looking for, but would require two steps to create and then use the RDP file, rather than just defining connections directly in Xpipe.

[crschnick]

In the PTB build, xpipe now generates a .remmina file. Now that is not always possible right now, because the rdp options have to be mapped to. remmina options. But for very simple connections, like the RDP tunnel connections, it should work right now

[cmacneill53]

I'll have a play and give feedback in a day or so.