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Just want to second the thought.... I was very pleasantly surprised when I did a
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google search for linux and terminal services and found rdesktop. It's GREAT.
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I had to get some current patches to get it to work on Solaris with a Solaris
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keyboard.
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The only drawback is the clipboard doesn't work.... it's only flaw.
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jack
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On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 10:47, MadHat wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>For those of you like me that have to use some other OSs for work, or</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>what ever reason, the subject of remote control is always an issue. VNC</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>has been one option, but frankly the stability and security have been</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>lacking, and on slower speed networks, can be almost unusable. Of</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>course controlling a Unix desktop from a non-unix desktop has always</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>been fairly simple with X and port forwarding, tunneling and other</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>means. But trying to go the other direction.... </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I use Linux as my desktop, but find that I have to fall back to a</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Windows box for some tasks at work and at home. I have found that</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Terminal Services for Windows is actually quite nice, in that it does</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>not take over the existing session, as it has a virtual desktop it</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>creates. The speed is decent and seems fairly secure as compared to</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>some other methods. What is nice is that with rdesktop</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>(http://www.rdesktop.org) I can use the existing TS on my Windows 2K/XP</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>boxes, it is open source and like the website states "Unlike Citrix ICA,</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>no server extensions are required." I always had issues getting Citrix</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>to work anyway.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Anyway, I have had good luck with this and wanted to pass it on. It is</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>only 98K compiled and the source is only 80K (tgz). It took less that 1</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>minute to compile on my P3 650MHz notebook. It uses about 1.2K of</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>resident memory (according to top). So far no issues and works fine</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>with a small footprint. No GUI for startup, but that would be easy to</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>do.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>-- </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>MadHat at Unspecific.com</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>"Anyone who understands Linux/Unix, really understands the universe.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> Anyone who understands Windows, really understands Windows."</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> - Richard Thieme, DefCon 10, 2002 </FONT></FONT></I>
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