From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 14 07:55:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E215E16A401 for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 07:55:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C0143D4C for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 07:55:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id k4E7tRx93173; Sun, 14 May 2006 00:55:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Tom Norris" , Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 00:55:27 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 In-reply-to: <44666077.2040506@trancegeek.net> Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: Is there a daemon/program for FreeBSD that accepts Microsoft RDP connections? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 07:55:49 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Tom Norris >Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 3:41 PM >To: freebsd-questions@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