Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rdesktop working when Tsclient does not
Hi Liam, Try installing gnome-rdp in Ubuntu from the software center menu, it give you options to add profiles and resize the screen, its a front end on the rdesktop command I believe. Im not sure why tsclient doesnt work, I would have thought they both use the sam port numbers if they support the same RDP protocol. Thanks Mark On 9 March 2010 20:00, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: This is a little odd. I have a Windows 2008 Server (r1, 32-bit, SP2) box sitting here, right next to on the same subnet as my Ubuntu 9.10 (64-bit) desktop PC. Both are patched fully up-to-date. I would like to use the Ubuntu machine to access the remote desktop on the Windows server. I normally use the Terminal Services client to do this, but it will not connect. It will from my XP laptop, it will from my Macs, but not from Ubuntu. Googling for info on this problem, eventually I found this: http://gerardmcgarry.com/blog/how-remotely-connect-ubuntu-a-windows-machine ... which told me about the rdesktop command. I tried it to my surprise it worked instantly. The snag is, I'd prefer the resizable window and so on of tsclient to rdesktop. Any ideas why tsclient won't connect when rdesktop will? It's not a firewall issue - neither machine has one on. It's not a routing issue - there is no routing, they're on the same hub. Not switch, hub. Direct circuit. Does not matter if I pick RDP or RDPv5 in tsclient - it eventually times out (very slowly - after about 2min) . It's not a user account issue. There are only 2 accounts on the server both work. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rdesktop working when Tsclient does not
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: This is a little odd. I have a Windows 2008 Server (r1, 32-bit, SP2) box sitting here, right next to on the same subnet as my Ubuntu 9.10 (64-bit) desktop PC. Both are patched fully up-to-date. I would like to use the Ubuntu machine to access the remote desktop on the Windows server. I normally use the Terminal Services client to do this, but it will not connect. It will from my XP laptop, it will from my Macs, but not from Ubuntu. Googling for info on this problem, eventually I found this: http://gerardmcgarry.com/blog/how-remotely-connect-ubuntu-a-windows-machine ... which told me about the rdesktop command. I tried it to my surprise it worked instantly. The snag is, I'd prefer the resizable window and so on of tsclient to rdesktop. You could try using grdc (which has apparently recently been renamed remmina. It was certainly grdc in the repos until Jaunty, I've not used it since). I've found it to be far more reliable than tsclient and I believe it has resizable windows that can show either scroll bars or scale the remote desktop to fit. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rdesktop working when Tsclient does not
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Adam Bagnall bagna...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: This is a little odd. I have a Windows 2008 Server (r1, 32-bit, SP2) box sitting here, right next to on the same subnet as my Ubuntu 9.10 (64-bit) desktop PC. Both are patched fully up-to-date. I would like to use the Ubuntu machine to access the remote desktop on the Windows server. I normally use the Terminal Services client to do this, but it will not connect. It will from my XP laptop, it will from my Macs, but not from Ubuntu. Googling for info on this problem, eventually I found this: http://gerardmcgarry.com/blog/how-remotely-connect-ubuntu-a-windows-machine ... which told me about the rdesktop command. I tried it to my surprise it worked instantly. The snag is, I'd prefer the resizable window and so on of tsclient to rdesktop. You could try using grdc (which has apparently recently been renamed remmina. It was certainly grdc in the repos until Jaunty, I've not used it since). I've found it to be far more reliable than tsclient and I believe it has resizable windows that can show either scroll bars or scale the remote desktop to fit. Thanks for the suggestions! The odd thing is, both worked, and when searching the Software Centre I found yet another one, too - Remotedesktop. This enabled me to trace why they all worked but TSclient didn't. Apparently, at least in TSclient, you *need* to have the connect to console tickybox checked. If not, I think it tries to create a /new/ session on the server /as well as/ the console, since my server isn't a Terminal Server, it only supports 1 session so this operation fails. Eventually. Now that I know this, I can use TSclient have removed the others. Many thanks! -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Rdesktop working when Tsclient does not
This is a little odd. I have a Windows 2008 Server (r1, 32-bit, SP2) box sitting here, right next to on the same subnet as my Ubuntu 9.10 (64-bit) desktop PC. Both are patched fully up-to-date. I would like to use the Ubuntu machine to access the remote desktop on the Windows server. I normally use the Terminal Services client to do this, but it will not connect. It will from my XP laptop, it will from my Macs, but not from Ubuntu. Googling for info on this problem, eventually I found this: http://gerardmcgarry.com/blog/how-remotely-connect-ubuntu-a-windows-machine ... which told me about the rdesktop command. I tried it to my surprise it worked instantly. The snag is, I'd prefer the resizable window and so on of tsclient to rdesktop. Any ideas why tsclient won't connect when rdesktop will? It's not a firewall issue - neither machine has one on. It's not a routing issue - there is no routing, they're on the same hub. Not switch, hub. Direct circuit. Does not matter if I pick RDP or RDPv5 in tsclient - it eventually times out (very slowly - after about 2min) . It's not a user account issue. There are only 2 accounts on the server both work. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
