Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RDP to login on oi from Windows

2012-02-24 Thread Jonathan Adams
VNC will work fine for you, the RDP server for Linux/Unix is actually a wrapper around VNC server to create desktops ... If you want lots of remote connections then a really good solution would be to look at running SunRays, or at least the SunRay software. Although I never used the FreeNX in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RDP to login on oi from Windows

2012-02-24 Thread Robin Axelsson
I remember the good old days of using XDMCP. It worked really well when connecting to SUN workstations from a Windows computer. I tried to set up XDMCP on my system not too long ago but without luck. I think I managed to get windows from individual programs to open on my client at best (which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RDP to login on oi from Windows

2012-02-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
I wouldn't recommend serving up RDP from an OI box, I managed to get it working but it was really basic, looked poor and was a PITA to get working. there is however another way ... there is a project called FreeNX http://freenx.berlios.de/ that I managed to get working on OI a while back, and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RDP to login on oi from Windows

2012-02-23 Thread Richard PALO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 whynot try installing VNC on your M$windows... for example TigerVNC seems to work well... Le 23/02/12 08:05, Hans J Albertsson a écrit : Some friend suggested RDP For connecting to an oi machine from

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RDP to login on oi from Windows

2012-02-23 Thread Robin Axelsson
That also crossed my mind. VNC comes with OI out of the box (I think) and is probably in the package SUWxvnc. All you have to do is run vncserver e.g. over ssh and the system is ready for incoming VNC connections. But there may be reasons where one might prefer RDP over VNC (although I don't

[OpenIndiana-discuss] RDP to login on oi from Windows

2012-02-22 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Some friend suggested RDP For connecting to an oi machine from Windows What must be done on OI to serve RDP ? Skickat från min iPod 23 feb 2012 kl. 05.37 skrev openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org: Send OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list submissions to