To make a somewhat long story short, we have a webpage that loads the Remote Desktop Connection ActiveX and connects to a Win2003 server. The activeX is embeded using an object tag and connected to the server using javascript. Everything on that end works fine. However, on client machines that have the RDP 6.1 update (included in XP sp3) the users see a very annoying warning message that states the following:
"A website wants to start a remote connection. The publisher of this remote connection cannot be identified.
This remote connection could harm your computer. Do not connect unless you know where this connection came from or have used it before.
Publisher: Unknown publisher
Type: Remote Desktop Connection
Remote computer: MyServerName"
And the dialog has "Connect" and "Cancel" buttons.
The website is on our intranet and is even listed specifically in the trusted sites.
I have seen a lot of articles on the web regarding people using and signing .rdp files to get around this type of error, or signing the "RemoteApp" that is launched, but have not found anything regarding the activeX simply connecting to a server and displaying the session.
I noticed that when connecting to the server using the desktop application I received a similar warning message. My research led me to the following article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782610.aspx which describes creating a certificate to authenticate the server. After completing all these steps, the warning message no longer appears on the desktop application, but still appears when connecting to the same server though a webpage!
This has become very frustrating for me as I struggle to make this warning go away. I really find it hard to believe that nobody else has run into this issue. Hopefully it is something simple that I have missed.
Thanks ahead of time for any help that can be provided on this.
T.J.
"A website wants to start a remote connection. The publisher of this remote connection cannot be identified.
This remote connection could harm your computer. Do not connect unless you know where this connection came from or have used it before.
Publisher: Unknown publisher
Type: Remote Desktop Connection
Remote computer: MyServerName"
And the dialog has "Connect" and "Cancel" buttons.
The website is on our intranet and is even listed specifically in the trusted sites.
I have seen a lot of articles on the web regarding people using and signing .rdp files to get around this type of error, or signing the "RemoteApp" that is launched, but have not found anything regarding the activeX simply connecting to a server and displaying the session.
I noticed that when connecting to the server using the desktop application I received a similar warning message. My research led me to the following article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782610.aspx which describes creating a certificate to authenticate the server. After completing all these steps, the warning message no longer appears on the desktop application, but still appears when connecting to the same server though a webpage!
This has become very frustrating for me as I struggle to make this warning go away. I really find it hard to believe that nobody else has run into this issue. Hopefully it is something simple that I have missed.
Thanks ahead of time for any help that can be provided on this.
T.J.