How to run GUI tests on a jenkins windows slave without remote desktop connection?

Question

I have a jenkins agent set up on window 7 and a jenkins server on Linux. I am running GUI testing on the windows agent. It runs fine if I have a remote desktop connection co

Answer 1

As solutions above seemed a bit overkill I used this approach:

1. Disable Jenkins service
2. Start Jenkins from command line using java -jar C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jenkins.war

For some reason I had to install all plugins and everything when starting it this way so I recommend creating a backup, there is plugin for that. Good luck. :)