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

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sun May 14 01:39:49 PDT 2006


Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Garrett Cooper
>> Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 1:12 AM
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Is there a daemon/program for FreeBSD that accepts
>> Microsoft RDP connections?
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>     
>
> The point was that no matter what he tells his boss, he will get it
> shot down.
>
> But he can certainly try.
>
> Usually what happens with these kinds of discussions is someone
> will post something similar to what our original poster said, everyone
> will replay with lots of well-meaning suggestions, the OP will then
> get lit up and go back to his boss or whoever is being obstructive,
> and get shot down again.  And most times we never hear from the OP
> again with a followup.
>
> Ted
>   
True... I was just offering a suggestion, just in case. I figured that 
if the boss doesn't like Unix (which it seems he probably doesn't) 
though-like you said, so he won't support this.
-Garrett


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