Dara, We routinely run web scraping sessions using Watir on remote Win2003 server and XP Pro machines, and a number of our sites have modal dialog and/or Javascript popups. However, we always run the scraping sessions on the console session and have set up our remote desktop sessions to show that same console. (Normally when you remote desktop in you get a new, virtual display that doesn't show the current console contents.)
From http://blogs.msdn.com/sameerm/archive/2004/09/01/224370.aspx : Connecting to Console session on a Remote server. When you use Remote Desktop Connetion (Start->Programs->Accessories->Communications->Remote Desktop Connection) to remote into an XP machine you get connected to the console session. I could not find a way to connect to the console session of a Win2K3 server using the Remote Desktop Connection UI Options button. The trick is to use the command line with the /console argument. *mstsc /v:servername /console* **Hope that helps, David Schmidt Lillis, Dara wrote: > I run my Watir tests on remote pc's. I would like to manage the remote > pc's using Remote Desktop, but encounter the following problem: > > When running tests that click on Modal Dialogs, tests that run fine > (i.e. click successfully on modal dialogs) on my local pc and when > managing the remote pc via netmeeting, hang forever when using Remote > Destkop, at the point where the modal dialog appears. > > Anyone else had this problem? Anyone got a solution? > > Thanks, > > -Dara _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
