Let’s face it, connecting to Windows Servers is a must for many of us. And some of us want to do so programatically. I did look at populating the CoRD database in a previous article. But now, luckily CoRD has recently introduced a command line interface for managing just these types of connections on the fly as well. And, it is very straight forward. There are two ways to call CoRD from the command line. The first is similar to how we handled VNC in an earlier article. Simply leverage the open command and call the URL with a rdp in the beginning. For example, if you want to open…
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Pushing Additions to CoRD from Shell
Since I already started down this path, we can also push out information for a Windows box therefore programatically allowing you to push updates to two programs and be able to manage all your boxen. You would push something along the following (creating a file that matches your naming convention followed by .rdp): connect to console:i:0 bitmapcachepersistenable:i:1 redirectdrives:i:0 disable wallpaper:i:1 disable full window drag:i:1 disable menu anims:i:1 disable themes:i:0 audiomode:i:0 desktopwidth:i:1024 desktopheight:i:768 session bpp:i:16 cord save password:i:0 startdisplay:i:0 cord fullscreen:i:0 cord row index:i:2 full address:s:10.10.10.10 username:s:charles domain:s: cord label:s:charles So programatically you can change any of the settings by replacing it with a variable. Therefore, in a script if we…