How do I get the Computer Drop Down List to pickup all values?

If you ditch the gnome frontend stuff you can simply use rdesktop and provide the user name and password when you launch the app. See http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdesktop for details.

You can then create several small scripts (or one big script taking a value as an option of which server to connect to) and it will connect without you having to type anything.

Something like:

#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in
"server1")
rdesktop -u server1username -p server1password $1;
;;
"server2")
rdesktop -u server2username -p server2password $1;
;;
esac

This circumvents the shortcomings of grdesktop. You can then use the above script (it may need some tweaks as I just bashed it off out of my head) with (assuming it is in $PATH and is executable and named "connectto"):

connctto APCITRIX01

this will then connect. without password or username prompt.

Hi Andrew; I have done this type of shell script menuing in several instances before and it's a good idea, thanks!

But, you kind of avoided my question; how would I accomplish these things without writing my own program. And, by extension anyone else that's using any of the 3 different GUI front ends to rdesktop including (what I think is the best) grdestkop.

If you are certain that grdesktop does not really "Save my password" then perhaps that boolean should be removed from the form?

I look forward to hearing from you,
Dale

Not something I use nowadays. I've used rdesktop at command line but never grdesktop.

I can understand that if I only had a hand full of servers to RDP into, but; I have lots and lots (and did I say lots?) Wouldn't it be nice if grdesktop (or any of the other GUI interfaces to rdesktop) did a good job of remembering my preferences on a per-server basis?

Well, I just thought so....

Can you tell me where to go (or get off) to ask that some of my concerns be addressed in future versions?

Metta,
Dale

I'd log a bug. There may be a kde app (if you don't mind the qt libs bloat) which may do the job.

Should I wait a while to see if someone else has thoughts here, or is it your perspective that we've covered the bases pretty well and I might have unreasonable expectations hoping someone else would join our conversation?

They may. I unfortunately cannot predict that :(

I'd log a bug