mRemoteNG Managing AnyDesk Connections

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Maintaining connections to clients, workstations, and servers over various protocols such as RDP, VNC, SSH, AnyDesk or TeamViewer can be challenging to manage with out the right tool. The tool I found best to manage this is mRemoteNG. As I switched from using TeamViewer for clients, I needed to sort out how to add these connections to my mRemoteNG sites.


To get started, we first need to create an External Tool. We do this by clicking Tools - External Tools


Select "New" at the top left of the main dialog


Under Display Name give it a name to use. File name we are calling PowerShell and for our arguments  we are taking insight from the AnyDesk and mRemoteNG support files and using; 

"'%PASSWORD%' | &'C:\Program Files (x86)\AnyDesk\AnyDesk.exe' %USERNAME%'@ad' --with-password"


Once this is done, we can create out connection.



In our new connection we fill out the information like we normally would with the username and password (minus @ad, we added it to our one liner), but for protocol we now select Ext.App for our External Applications and select the External Tool we just added - in my case AnyDesk Connection. 

Provided everything is configured properly, you should be able to double click your connection and connect to the AnyDesk client.

Note: I had issues with long passwords that use special characters such as "!". Also had issues with "Try to integrate" so I left that disabled in the External Tool I created.

What exactly is happening?

We are using the %PASSWORD% and %USERNAME% variable from mRemoteNG username and password field to pipe into AnyDesk where we have used the available command --with-password to let it know that we were including a password. I simply included '@ad' following the %USERNAME% variable to avoid having to include it in every connection. 

You can find out more about functions and possibilities for your connections below:

mRemoteNG External Tool functions https://mremoteng.readthedocs.io/en/master/howtos/external_tools.html#start-external-application

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