using own computer and remote desktop

[huskies]

Say if I have a computer that can remote desktop into another server. I need autoit to automate some stuff on my own computer but at the same time interact with the remote desktop, possibly extracting information.

How does Autoit recognize the 2 different computers?

For example i have a list of ip addresses and their ID's in an excel in my own computer and i need to remote desktop into another computer and using the cmd window in that computer execute some commands involving this ID number.

[evilertoaster]

Well, you can use

MsgBox(0,"",EnvGet("sessionname"))

Which will return 'console' on a local login and 'RDP' on a remote one...

You should be able to send keystrokes to the remote login window as usual, I'm not sure about extracting... Are you sure you can't just remote read a file or registry key to get the information you want?

[ChrisFromBoston]

You should be able to send keystrokes to the remote login window as usual, I'm not sure about extracting... Are you sure you can't just remote read a file or registry key to get the information you want?

RDP is just screen refreshes going back and forth, so I don't think AutoIt3 would be able to "see" inside the session to grab windows, etc. Maybe you could get creative and have a child script running within the console as well and the parent script could send commands to the child script if you need them both to work together.

[Joseph]

lol that sounds like some fun

[Teltech]

Are you using Windows XP Remote desktop connection?

I do this all the time to automate some scripts on my desktop pc while i'm at home.

Whats your setup like? Maybe there's an easier way to do it.

Possibly upoading a batch file that stores the output into some folder and have the script retrieve the contents...

Do you have some more info.