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Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: "cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 20:39:15 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?
- References: <3EF5DE64.FA955089@cybertheque.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
msg wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> We need to configure a single-host Win2k Terminal Server solution;
> this machine should provide Windows desktops on X-terminals. On
> a test machine using Cygwin/Xfree86 one may telnet from the X-terminal
> and establish an xterm (bash) session but 'rdesktop.exe' will not
> open a session on the remote display. 'rdesktop.exe' does open
> a session window on the console display if invoked from a console
> command prompt.
is the DISPLAY variable set? If not, then rdesktop does not know where
to display the window.
> 'rdesktop' running on a Unix host works well to provide a Windows
> session desktop on an X-terminal however we need to create a
> configuration which doesn't require a separate Unix host to
> provide X11 services.
>
> Also XDM running on Cygwin/Xfree86 will produce a 'willing to manage'
> broadcast and if the Win host is selected it does present a login
> screen but fails on authentication. Has anyone made XDM work?
xdm on windows? This is very complicated.
bye
ago
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