Hi again, ----- Original Message ----- > From: "A. James Lewis" <ja...@fsck.co.uk> > To: "Gustavo Homem" <gust...@angulosolido.pt>, > xrdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 7:32:50 PM > Subject: Re: [Xrdp-devel] reconnecting vs new session. > > > I like the DNS solution, that's deceptively simple... although it seems > to have some issues, since ideally people should be able to connect from > an arbitrary client, or statically configured thin client, and they > enter their username after connecting to xrdp...
True. The solution I told you about forces you to have a simple GUI wrapper for rdesktop. > > perhaps there is some way to capture the username and parse it between > the xrdp front end and the actual service hosting the desktop... Yes, shell script + zenity or something in python, etc. > > Hmm, or, are you suggesting that this mechanism is built in and it > already looks for those "username.vdi" hostnames when passing the > connection from xrdp to the backend? No, it isn't built in. You have to build it. > > Thanks a lot btw, really good insight.. :) You're welcome. Cheers Gustavo > > On 28/05/15 17:41, Gustavo Homem wrote: > >> >Also, I notice there is an option to kill disconnected sessions... is > >> >there a way to kill them after a set period of time, > >> > > > Didn't test it. You can also have a regular cron job to do that. > > I thought about doing it with cron, but it seems like you would have to > determine which X11rdp process had no connected socket before killing > it... I guess that's not too hard, but if it was built in it would also > be nice.. :) > > > Cheers > > Gustavo > > > -- > A. James Lewis (ja...@fsck.co.uk) > "Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people > built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works." > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xrdp-devel mailing list xrdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xrdp-devel
