Is there a daemon/program for FreeBSD that accepts Microsoft RDP connections?

[Garrett Cooper]

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Tom Norris
>> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 3:41 PM
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Is there a daemon/program for FreeBSD that accepts Microsoft
>> RDP connections?
>>
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to convince my boss to let me set up a FreeBSD 
>> system as file 
>> server.  He said he would allow it if he could use Microsoft's RDP 
>> client (not VNC or SSH :( ) to connect and monitor the machine at his 
>> whim.  Are there any daemons that will take incoming RDP connections?
>>
>>     
>
> Hell-lo!  Clue phone ringing!
>
> Your boss doesen't want you to use any other solution than Windows,
> get the picture?  If such a thing as an RDP<->XWindows conversion
> daemon existed, your boss would find some other nit picky thing
> that he would hold up as a deal-breaker.  Then if that was fixed
> he would find some other thing.  And on and on and on.
>
> What you need to do is recognize that the place your working at
> is hopelessly borked as long as your boss is working there, and
> just keep your head down and look for a better job somewhere else.
>
> If you put the same effort looking for a better place to work
> as your putting into trying to convince your boss to do something
> he's simply afraid of doing, you would surely find one.
>
> People like your boss are only convinced by evolutionary changes.
> What will happen one of these days is a problem will come up that
> cannot be fixed by the old Microsoft standbys, and your boss will
> be fired for incompetence.  Then when he goes to find another job
> everyone will be asking him if he has any Linux experience, and at
> that time he will suddenly start thinking it might be a good idea
> to start looking into this yoo-niks thing.
>
> Ted
No solution for the RDP protocol exists on Unix as its a proprietary 
protocol that I think would be difficult to implement given X11's setup 
on Unix. However, there's also the NoMachine NX server/client protocol 
to look into, which is hailed as a Unix counterpart for RDP. See 
<http://www.nomachine.com/> for a licensed version and 
<http://freenx.berlios.de/> for a GNU opensource version. So if you 
really want to sell your boss on remote access with FreeBSD, I would 
look into this solution.
-Garrett