Clipboard via RDP broken

Hi all,

In our environment, the support personnel is working on XP machines, which
are connecting to a Terminal Server. From that Terminal Server, connections
to clients are permitted. When the terminal server was running W2K3, the
support people could copy/past documents from their desktop directly to the
client's server (so XP ==> 2003 ==> 2003 server). We recently migrated to a
2008 Terminal server, and there this copy/paste function doesn't work
anymore. We can copy past from our desktops to the 2008 terminal server, and
then again, copy from the 2008 and paste to the RDP opened in that terminal
server session.

I read a lot about the rdpclip.exe functionality, but restarting this chain
(by ending the rdpclip process and restarting it), but this doesn't help.
Also, mapping the local drives to the RDP doesn't work. The last thing we
tried was looking to the permissions in the RDP settings, but everything
seems to be OK. Oh yeah, also the clipboard check box in the MSTSC box is set


What do we have to modify so that the RDP clipboard functions like it did
before?

Thanks in advance,

Vincent

 

Are the Terminal Services configuration settings overriding the client
setting by disabling Clipboard? ( In 2008 TS RDP configuration a check in
the "Clipboard" check box disables this functionality and overrides any
client setting.



Vincent wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In our environment, the support personnel is working on XP machines,
> which are connecting to a Terminal Server. From that Terminal Server,
> connections to clients are permitted. When the terminal server was
> running W2K3, the support people could copy/past documents from their
> desktop directly to the client's server (so XP ==> 2003 ==> 2003
> server). We recently migrated to a 2008 Terminal server, and there
> this copy/paste function doesn't work anymore. We can copy past from
> our desktops to the 2008 terminal server, and then again, copy from
> the 2008 and paste to the RDP opened in that terminal server session.
>
> I read a lot about the rdpclip.exe functionality, but restarting this
> chain (by ending the rdpclip process and restarting it), but this
> doesn't help. Also, mapping the local drives to the RDP doesn't work.
> The last thing we tried was looking to the permissions in the RDP
> settings, but everything seems to be OK. Oh yeah, also the clipboard
> check box in the MSTSC box is set
>
> What do we have to modify so that the RDP clipboard functions like it
> did before?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Vincent

--
/kj

 

KJ,

That check box is not checked, so this is not the problem. Also, in the
security tab of the RDP configuration, I allowed the "Virtual Channels" (this
was also something I found on the Internet), but this didn't resolve the
problem neither.

Strange thing is that the copy/paste of text does work without any problem.
Just the copy/paste of documents is broken (and this did work in an 2003
environment).

Can this be something have to do with the different mstsc versions?

Thx

"kj [SBS MVP]" wrote:

> Are the Terminal Services configuration settings overriding the client
> setting by disabling Clipboard? ( In 2008 TS RDP configuration a check in
> the "Clipboard" check box disables this functionality and overrides any
> client setting.
>
>
>
> Vincent wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In our environment, the support personnel is working on XP machines,
> > which are connecting to a Terminal Server. From that Terminal Server,
> > connections to clients are permitted. When the terminal server was
> > running W2K3, the support people could copy/past documents from their
> > desktop directly to the client's server (so XP ==> 2003 ==> 2003
> > server). We recently migrated to a 2008 Terminal server, and there
> > this copy/paste function doesn't work anymore. We can copy past from
> > our desktops to the 2008 terminal server, and then again, copy from
> > the 2008 and paste to the RDP opened in that terminal server session.
> >
> > I read a lot about the rdpclip.exe functionality, but restarting this
> > chain (by ending the rdpclip process and restarting it), but this
> > doesn't help. Also, mapping the local drives to the RDP doesn't work.
> > The last thing we tried was looking to the permissions in the RDP
> > settings, but everything seems to be OK. Oh yeah, also the clipboard
> > check box in the MSTSC box is set
> >
> > What do we have to modify so that the RDP clipboard functions like it
> > did before?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Vincent
>
> --
> /kj
>
>
>