Terminals: The Best (RDP) Connection Manager For Free?
Thursday, 10 September 2009 by Michel Roth
I've written about (RDP) connection managers on many occasions. This time Wesley takes a look at one of the more unknown connection managers: Terminals. It's free by the way!

Terminals 1.7e is all about storing multiple remote connections of varying types and arranging them by tags or in groups and then allowing you to mange numerous simultaneous open sessions via an interface similar to tabbed web browsers.  However, you have the option of having any connection that you create open in either Terminal’s tab system or within a separate window.

Terminals is capable of creating connections using RDP, VNC, VMRC, Telnet, SSH1, SSH2, ICA Citrix, RAS and HTTP sessions. When manually creating a connection you are given the choice of the aforementioned protocols and, depending on the protocol that you choose, you will have a different set of options to choose from. All options should be familiar to anyone who uses that protocol frequently, e.g. toggling themes, menu animations and redirecting sound for RDP connections.

Connections can also be automatically discovered using Active Directory or by scanning a range of IP addresses for RDP, VNC, VMRC, Telnet and SSH accepting incoming connections. You can also import RDP, vRD or MuRD files.

Aside from the typical remote GUI connections to an operating system, HTTP connections can be made which essentially means that Terminals spins up Internet Explorer as a rendering engine within one of Terminal’s own tabs. This allows you to make connections to web sites or web based administration pages. Notice that picture 1 displays Terminal’s home page in the active tab.

You can keep your connections organized by tagging them. Those tags are used to create a hierarchy of folders located in a favorites fly-out window on the left of the screen. There is also a history tab in the favorites fly-out window that shows what you connected to in the last day, weeks and months.

Source: http://www.petri.co.il/terminals-remote-connection-manager.htm


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