http://thebackroomtech.com/2007/05/18/how-to-enable-remote-desktop-on-a-windows-xp-machine-remotely/
That link explains how to do this remotely from a command line and by modifying a registry entry. I've scripted this with python before but can't find the code right now. Steven James On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Jerry Hill <malaclyp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > There is a checkbox in Control Panel to do this microsoft has provided > > it for the user. > > I want to enable/disable that checkbox via Python, and want to know > > how it can be done. > > You'll probably need to figure out what checking that checkbox does > under the covers. Does it change a value in the registry? Does it > write an option to a file someplace? Does it start or stop a service? > Once you know what the checkbox is doing, you can probably do the > same thing via your python code. I certainly don't know which of > those it is, or if it's something else entirely. It sounds like no > one else here does either, so you'll need to figure it out for > yourself. > > The other option is to automate opening the control panel and clicking > the checkbox, as if you were clicking on things yourself. This tends > to be a pretty complex and fragile process in my experience, though. > You're almost always better off just performing the underlying action > yourself. > > If you decide to go the former route, there are some tools that might > help you figure out what's going on under the covers. Process monitor > ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx ) > allows you to watch processes, and all of the registry and file > activity they perform. That's probably your best bet for seeing > what's going on. > > If you decide to go the latter route and automate clicking buttons and > such, check out the pywinauto project. > > The third option is to find a piece of code in some other language > that does what you want, and show us where to find it. We can > probably help translate that into python with you. > > -- > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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