RDEsktop/VNC questions
Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)
thad.butterworth at hp.com
Mon Nov 15 05:37:42 PST 2004
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ohoyer at gaff.hhhr.ision.net [mailto:ohoyer at gaff.hhhr.ision.net] On
>Behalf Of Olaf Hoyer
>Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 1:20 AM
>To: Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: RE: RDEsktop/VNC questions
>
>On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract) wrote:
>>>
>>> So, who's using these clients, and how effective have you been
finding
>>> them? Any gotchas? How cool is it? Do they just plain suck? And
more
>>> to the point, which one(s) should I start with on the short list?
>
><snip>
>>
>>
>> I've used the rdesktop client for connecting to a Windows 2003 Server
>(/usr/ports/net/rdesktop). I wasn't that impressed but then again it
could >have been a PEBKAC situation. I could not get the screen
resolution of the >Windoze 2003 server to go anything beyond 640x480 and
it looked horribly >grainy. Other than that, it did actually connect and
allowed me to do all >that I needed to. I just couldn't handle the
graphic element, which again >may have been more a user issue than an
issue with the program. Other than >that, I have used the Windows RDC
programs and they work ok.
>>
>> Thad
>
>I use rdesktop regularly to administer some of our Win2003 Servers, and
>it works well. Special trick is, that I need to hop first on a jumppad,
>where an extra NIC is attached to the dedicated management VLAN of the
>Win boxes, and then hop on them via X-forwarded rdesktop- works well,
>despite that jumppad is a small old crappy Pentium-II, which is also
>busy doing some other things...
>
>
>so:
>ssh -X jumppad
>rdesktop -g 1024x768 win-server
>
>That shall give you some window in 1024x768, normal is 800x600 in
>standard mode. when its smaller, I guess you havent configured the
>Graphics driver, or its set to standard VGA. Win (also for remote
>connections) sometimes looks after that settings...
>
>HTH
>Olaf
>
>
>--
>Olaf Hoyer ohoyer at ohoyer.de
>Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten,
>ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist.
>(Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)
Thanks. I'll have to try that.
Thad
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