Client name on RDP

Feature Requests Royal TSX (for macOS)
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FreeRDP sends along the hostname of the client computer when it connects. Unfortunately, macOS doesn’t seem to set $HOSTNAME by default. When I connect, I usually end up with (what I presume is) the name of some other computer who used my IP last.

This shows up in the “Users” tab of Task Manager as well as the friendly name of any mounted drives in Windows Explorer: “Documents on $client_name”

If TSX could use the output of scutil --get for ComputerName or LocalHostName, I believe it would be better than $HOSTNAME or hostname. I got around this with scutil --set HostName foo, but it’d be nice to have the right value straight out of the box, so to speak.

2

Good news, Michael! This will be supported in the next major release.

3

Hi Michael,

The first beta with support for this particular feature is now available!

You can get the beta here: https://www.royalapplications.com/ts/mac/features-beta

cheers,

felix

4

Hi there,

I’m happy to report that Royal TSX 4.0 has been released and includes this feature.

For more information about the major new features of Royal TSX 4.0, please head over to our major upgrade landing page.

cheers,

felix

5

Hi Felix,
I’m looking for the option to set the client name in the current Royal TSX version, but I can’t find it.
Can you help me with this?
Best regards
Johan

6

There’s no option to manually set the client name. It’s set automatically, based on the configured system hostname. You can change the hostname in macOS’ System Settings under “Sharing - Local hostname”.

Hope that helps!

cheers,
Felix