23 Mar
2017
23 Mar
'17
8:16 p.m.
On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
<snip>
> I'd be stoked if X11 had an RDP extension or
something. I have no idea if
> that makes sense but RDP is the shit.
On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, jsteve(a)superglobalmegacorp.com wrote:
Well there is xrdp
http://www.xrdp.org/
I'm a fan of this project.
I’ve used this to ‘terminal server-ize’ our Oracle on
Linux
installs, as our DBA’s were used to Oracle on Windows (I know, I
know, they also used to run it on Netware....) So the upshot is that
on Windows you just fire up the rdp client, and connect into the Linux
machine, and it’ll greet you with a login screen, login, and you
have your desktop. On the backend it’s the virtual X framebuffer,
and xrdp does some vnc/mstsc type translation in the middle.
I'd describe xrdp as a VNC client that you connect to via RDP.
It’s great for sharing out desktops, or if you have
those old
‘windows terminals’ that can at least talk to a MS Terminal
server. It’s incompatible with the citrix stuff, but it’s pretty
cool.
For whole-desktop sharing, yes, it's very nice. Occasionally I try and
come up with ways to share a single app with it, to avoid the issue
where a network hiccup kills the app and you lose work. Copious spare
time and all that...
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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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