Suggestion: VNC Viewer - Specify Credentials
Andrew Molyneux
Hi PDQ.com Team,
With the rollout of PDQ Inventory v13 and Client Only installs (thankyou for this, it's awesome!), how difficult would it be for your team to add the ability for each user to specify their VNC Viewer credentials in Preferences > Remote Control, which are then passed to the VNC Viewer?
This would speed up connecting to remote machines without having to enter login credentials.
We currently utilise UltraVNC within our domain and this would be so handy.
Hopefully this suggestion/request wouldn't be too difficult to implement.
Cheers!
Shane.
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I'm not clear on whether Custom Variables are now set Per-Console in PDQ Inventory with the shift to Central Server. If perhaps they are, I would create custom Variables on each console with your credentials, and just pass the custom variables with the tool.
I managed to work around this by creating a custom tool in PDQ Inventory, and passing through the credentials directly to the VNC Viewer.
The command is as follows;
"C:\Program Files (x86)\UltraVNC\vncviewer.exe" -hostname $(Computer:TARGETHOSTNAME):<port> /user <username> /password <password> /nostatus
Simply change the <username> and <password> credentials. You can change the port number <port> if the VNC server runs on a different port.
When creating the custom tool, set the Shell to "No Shell" to hide the command window.
** Security Note **: The password is stored in plain-text and is viewable by other administrators as this is a shared custom tool.
I just submitted this as an internal feature request. I have no ETA on when it could happen.