Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 - 1.8.3
Anyone using rdesktop may wish to consider FreeRDP. The only minor issue I've had is not being able to get copy and paste working, but it should.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 - 1.8.3
R0b0t1 wrote: Anyone using rdesktop may wish to consider FreeRDP. The only minor issue I've had is not being able to get copy and paste working, but it should. Works like a charm, thank you! (Just a quick test, didn't try copypaste yet.) -Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 - 1.8.3
J. Roeleveld wrote: Yes, you need to enable Remote Desktop on the windows guest. No, you need to enable Remote Desktop in the VirtualBox settings. VBoxManage modifyvm name --vrde on --vrdeport 3389 --vrdeauthtype ... And then connect to the host's IP, not to the guest's. The benefit is that you can connect to a Windows which doesn't have an RDP server included (Home versions of modern Windows, or even a very old Windows 2000, and all that). -Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 - 1.8.3
J. Roeleveld wrote: And how will the authentication work that way? Just as you like: --vrdeauthtype null : no authentication at all (useful in a well- secured LAN, cut off from the outside world, for quick-and-dirty testing) --vrdeauthtype external : specify an own --vrdeauthlibrary where you can do/check anything you want (a VBoxAuth.so is included to check against the host's PAM system, and a VBoxAuthSimple to check against some hand-made settings in the VM config file; but of course you can compile an own myauth.so where you can check MySQL databases, LDAP servers, date, time, the current weather and all that) :-) --vrdeauthtype guest : authentication by the guest system via the Guest Additions (don't know if it's fully supported yet, never tried out) -Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 - 1.8.3
On 5 February 2015 09:46:58 CET, Matthias Hanft m...@hanft.de wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Yes, you need to enable Remote Desktop on the windows guest. No, you need to enable Remote Desktop in the VirtualBox settings. VBoxManage modifyvm name --vrde on --vrdeport 3389 --vrdeauthtype ... And then connect to the host's IP, not to the guest's. The benefit is that you can connect to a Windows which doesn't have an RDP server included (Home versions of modern Windows, or even a very old Windows 2000, and all that). -Matt And how will the authentication work that way? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
[gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 - 1.8.3
On 02/05/2015 12:46 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Yes, you need to enable Remote Desktop on the windows guest. No, you need to enable Remote Desktop in the VirtualBox settings. VBoxManage modifyvm name --vrde on --vrdeport 3389 --vrdeauthtype ... And then connect to the host's IP, not to the guest's. The benefit is that you can connect to a Windows which doesn't have an RDP server included (Home versions of modern Windows, or even a very old Windows 2000, and all that). I confirm that rdesktop-1.8.3 is very broken, at least when used the way you use it, and 1.8.2 works perfectly. Very strange for a minor version bump.
[gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 - 1.8.3
On 02/04/2015 01:56 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote: Hi, I'm using net-misc/rdesktop in order to get access to a VirtualBox (Windows) guest on a remote (also Gentoo) Linux: Windows PC with Gentoo Linux with - Gentoo Linux with Xming serverssh rdesktop programVirtualBox (Windows) From my Windows desktop PC (where Xming server is running), I use a PuTTY ssh to a Linux shell, call rdesktop -u ... -p ... hostname from there, and I get the Windows desktop from the remote host onto my own desktop. Until net-misc/rdesktop-1.8.2, everything worked like a charm. But with 1.8.3 (which portage installed this week), I can't mouse-click in the remote desktop window any more (and keypresses seem to be ignored either). Sometimes even the desktop isn't painted completely (only about 75% from top, doesn't reach the Windows task bar at the bottom). I have alread looked at the changelog at packages.gentoo.org, but only found some minor (?) bugfix - nothing about any fundamental issues or bigger changes... Downgraded to 1.8.2 - and everything works flawlessly again! What could it be that 1.8.3 doesn't work any more? I'll be happy to test if you'll refresh my failing memory :) Been about a year since I used rdesktop, and then it was only for connecting to an OSX server, not to Windows. I have Win7 running as a vbox guest, and here's what it's showing me: PORT STATE SERVICE 135/tcp open msrpc 139/tcp open netbios-ssn 445/tcp open microsoft-ds 554/tcp open rtsp 2869/tcp open icslap 5357/tcp open wsdapi 10243/tcp open unknown Do I need to enable RDP (or something else) on the Windows guest before rdesktop will make a connection? I've tried all the open ports on the Win7 machine with no success. (You can tell I'm no Windows expert :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 - 1.8.3
On Wednesday, February 04, 2015 04:27:48 PM walt wrote: On 02/04/2015 01:56 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote: Hi, I'm using net-misc/rdesktop in order to get access to a VirtualBox (Windows) guest on a remote (also Gentoo) Linux: Windows PC with Gentoo Linux with - Gentoo Linux with Xming serverssh rdesktop programVirtualBox (Windows) From my Windows desktop PC (where Xming server is running), I use a PuTTY ssh to a Linux shell, call rdesktop -u ... -p ... hostname from there, and I get the Windows desktop from the remote host onto my own desktop. Until net-misc/rdesktop-1.8.2, everything worked like a charm. But with 1.8.3 (which portage installed this week), I can't mouse-click in the remote desktop window any more (and keypresses seem to be ignored either). Sometimes even the desktop isn't painted completely (only about 75% from top, doesn't reach the Windows task bar at the bottom). I have alread looked at the changelog at packages.gentoo.org, but only found some minor (?) bugfix - nothing about any fundamental issues or bigger changes... Downgraded to 1.8.2 - and everything works flawlessly again! What could it be that 1.8.3 doesn't work any more? I'll be happy to test if you'll refresh my failing memory :) Been about a year since I used rdesktop, and then it was only for connecting to an OSX server, not to Windows. I have Win7 running as a vbox guest, and here's what it's showing me: PORT STATE SERVICE 135/tcp open msrpc 139/tcp open netbios-ssn 445/tcp open microsoft-ds 554/tcp open rtsp 2869/tcp open icslap 5357/tcp open wsdapi 10243/tcp open unknown Do I need to enable RDP (or something else) on the Windows guest before rdesktop will make a connection? I've tried all the open ports on the Win7 machine with no success. (You can tell I'm no Windows expert :) Yes, you need to enable Remote Desktop on the windows guest. And, preferably, disable the firewall on there. -- Joost
