On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:36:25PM +0000, jr wrote: > On 3 November 2010 10:31, John Carlyle-Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > > My list would be: > > (2) Create something to rival and improve on Remote Desktop on Windows. > > VNC, remote X11 and No Machine don't quite do it, although all of them are > > good in some ways. > > have you tried 'rdesktop(1)' John? the (browser i/f) 'TeamViewer' > (http://www.teamviewer.com/) is pretty good too. >
Hi jr- I use rdesktop to connect to Windows machines a lot, but AFAIK there is no Linux server for this protocol. For those that haven't used it, the things that are good about Remote Desktop are:- * It can easily connect to an existing sesssion or create a new one. * You can disconnect a remote desktop session without logging out of the remote. This leaves the remote with a locked console, so you can then walk up to it, authenticate, and continue the session. * It automatically sizes the remote desktop to the client view size. * It brings printers and disks from the client to the client's session on the remote. These appear as networked printers and disks on the remote machine. Not so useful say on a big LAN, where these resources will be networked anyway, but very useful on a small network. * It brings sound from the remote to the client. * It is more network efficient than X11 or VNC and is quite usable over slow links. When I've used No Machine and it works, it's pretty close to this. Again, the remaining bits could be filled in by existing technology. It's more a matter of packaging it all up in a convenient way. The problems with NX are that it's commercial software, and the free versions are pretty broken. I'm curious to see where Neatx goes: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/07/releasing-neatx-open-source-nx-servier.html Hopefully this could improve the experience here. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
