I thought I'd pass on this useful information to Linux users. I'm sure there are a lot of people like myself that have their machines either setup to dual boot (Linux/Windows) or run a Windows KVM or VirtualBox type setup so they can get access & use some Windows app that their job etc requires at some time.
Although the KVM/VirtualBox is more convenient than Dual Boot... you still deal with both the Linux & Windows full desktops so I thought I'd see if there was just a way to run the Windows KVM or VirtualBox guest minimized and use FreeRDP to create some Linux Desktop launchers so I could just bring up any Windows App I wanted whenever I needed it. Sticky part was that most people think that RemoteApp's requires a Windows 2008 Server and Windows 2008 Server requires another Microsoft license from the Windows 7 license I already own. Then also, to run RemoteApp on Windows 2008 Server you have to configure Terminal Services... which is another license. I learned recently that certain versions of Windows XP, Windows 7, Vista, etc can all be configured to support RemoteApp without Terminal Services required. First, I learned how to do it the hard way through using regedit & adding quite a few registry entries. However, I later learned a much easier way using a tool described at this site: http://sites.google.com/site/kimknight/remoteapptool So I took my Windows 7 Ultimate (Enterprise works too) and installed it using KVM onto my Ubuntu PC. After installing the Win7, I installed all my other Windows related apps onto that KVM Windows VM. Then i installed the above remoteapptool using the instructions in the above URL. Since I am only using my own Win7 license, my own licensed applications and only using RemoteApp for my personal use I can't see any problem doing this or that it violates any licenses. Anyway I used the above tool to setup all the installed Windows applications as remoteapp, created Launcher Icon's on my Ubuntu Desktop with the launcher command being the required FreeRDP command line for each app. It works great and now I just have the one desktop with all the applications available that I need from either Linux or Windows. Thought this might be something others might find useful as well. Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
