{"id":293,"date":"2009-11-25T19:20:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T19:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-11-25T19:20:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T19:20:52","slug":"rdp-file-unable-to-open-connection-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/fixes\/rdp-file-unable-to-open-connection-file","title":{"rendered":"RDP File &#8220;unable to open connection file&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remote_desktop_connection_icon1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-292 img-responsive\" title=\"Remote_desktop_connection\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remote_desktop_connection_icon1.png\" alt=\"Remote_desktop_connection\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remote_desktop_connection_icon1.png 256w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remote_desktop_connection_icon1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>Upon trying to open up a remote application on a 2008 terminal server I am greeted with the following\r\n\r\n<strong>error:unable to open connection file.<\/strong>\r\n<p align=\"left\">This issue seems to be down to the file signing , if you have access to the terminal server , republish the file without signing and redeploy this. You can take out the signing manually by<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Opening up the .rdp file in question with notepad<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Find the line starting &#8220;<strong>signscope:s:<\/strong>&#8221; and delete any of the text on that line and after it. ( This removes the signing code )<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Save the text file and try again<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon trying to open up a remote application on a 2008 terminal server I am greeted with the following error:unable to open connection file. This issue seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[207,209,210,208,206],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixes","tag-rdp","tag-signatures","tag-signing-code-rdp","tag-signscopes","tag-unable-to-open-connection-file"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}