Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 01:12:06 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a daemon/program for FreeBSD that accepts Microsoft RDP connections? Message-ID: <4466E656.20904@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEPDFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEPDFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> -----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 No solution for the RDP protocol exists on Unix as its a proprietary protocol that I think would be difficult to implement given X11's setup on Unix. 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. -Garrett
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