I am running snapshot from 8th of August (amd64 and i386 versions). I
need to work on a remote location. The access to remote center is
provided via combination of OpenVPN and Xrdp.
1. OpenVPN tunnel via tap interface.
2. Connecting to Xrdp server which appears to use VNC as a back end as
it runs on a clone of Red Hat. However documentation requires RDP
client and network traffic is happening on TCP/UDP 3389 which indicates
RDP backends so I am confused.
OpenVPN tunnel appears to be rock stable. Only "tricky" part was editing
configuration file with
dev tun0
dev-type tap
to use tap interface. However connecting to Xrdp server is a mixed bag.
I tried Remmina but it dumps core both on amd64 and i386 when trying to
use RDP protocol (as suggested by their documentation and the fact that
I nailed network traffic to TCP/UDP port 3389). rdesktop works well on
amd64 but on i386 I get reproducible freezes which are due to rdesktop
(after little bit of trouble shooting). Rdesktop post freeze message
(after I kill it) reveals network times out.
I have ZERO experience connecting to Xrdp servers. My first hunch was
that rdesktop was running out of memory so I monkey little bit with
/etc/login.conf
increasing the following default options
:datasize-max=512M:\
:datasize-cur=512M:\
:maxproc-max=256:\
:maxproc-cur=128:\
:openfiles-cur=512:\
It didn't help. Is there an alternative client for Xrdp which I can try.
Does this indicate poorly configured Xrdp server? What else could cause
such a big difference between amd64 and i386 experience.
Most Kind Regards,
Predrag
