rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?
Jeremy Wilkins
jeb@jeremywilkins.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Jun 24 17:26:00 GMT 2003
I got bored again :)
just changed xwxdm to launch rdesktop instead (line 449 - xwxdm.c, from
XwinX source), this works with a couple of issues;
i) rdesktop doesn't accept the --display parameter
ii) rdesktop doesn't support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authorization, which is
what the xserver uses to make sure its the xdm server responding to it.
solution was to set xwxdm to launch
"DISPLAY=%s:%d rdesktop.exe -f localhost"
This seems to work fine, when I launch Xwin -ac -query winxpbox, the
remote desktop pops up full screen in the window. Note this is with
access control disabled.
I can only run 1 remote session at a time under XP, so I set xwxdm to
launch xterm instead and found it will launch multiple sessions quite
happily.
jeremy
PS: Let me know if this works - I'm quite interested in this.
Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
> I've had a thought about launching rdesktop from the windows term serv box.
>
> Xwinx(.sourceforge.net) had an app the accepted xdm requests and
> launched xwinx, I think it only handled one connection at a time but I'd
> of thought it would be quite simple to modify it to launch rdesktop, and
> listen for multiple connections.
>
> You don't need to worry about authentication because the term serv login
> will handle that, it can just run as an unprivilidged user.
>
> Its in the 0.03 src.
>
> jeb
>
>
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