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Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?
Andrew Markebo wrote:
>
> hi!
>
> Just a couple of quick thoughts here..
>
> * I don't think rdesktop can display the xfree sessions from windows.
>
Indeed, this was never the intent
> * xfree can't send stuff like word and so on from windows to a
> x-session on other machine. What is sent is to be X-applications.
That is of course true too
Here is our original post which in which I will insert comments
to elaborate a bit:
(This is a restatement of our previous post requesting info on any
Cygwin/X11R6/rdesktop experience...thanks to Chris January for the
rdesktop.exe binary)
Greetings:
We need to configure a single-host Win2k Terminal Server solution;
this machine should provide Windows desktops on X-terminals.
>>> In other forums several people have reported working on the
effort to build a Cygwin/X11R6/rdesktop solution <<<
On a test machine using Cygwin/Xfree86 one may telnet from the
X-terminal and establish an xterm (bash) session but then invoking
'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.
>>> Indeed an interesting artifact is that one may open an
'rdesktop.exe' session in a 'bash window' under an 'rdesktop' session
managed by a Unix host, said session running an an X-terminal...eg.
an rdesktop.exe session within an rdesktop session <<<
'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.
>>> I was very impressed after porting rdesktop to our AT&T SysV/386
R4.0 host; performance is snappy and the desktop is rendered
flawlessly except for backing store management on certain X-servers
This host has no X-server and only manages X-terminals. We routinely
use rdesktop to login to a Win2k/TS box under multiple accounts <<<
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?
>>> sure would be nice <<<
As you can see our hope is to build an alternative to Citrix
to present Win2k desktop sessions on X-terminals using only one
Win2k host. We can now do that using one Win2k host and one
unix host to manage the X-terminals.
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum