Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 09:19:54 +0100 (CET) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de> To: "Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)" <thad.butterworth@hp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: RDEsktop/VNC questions Message-ID: <20041113091542.L49679@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <2D8BB15C7B5C214F81C32D3A83B32736019A0EC9@idbexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net> References: <2D8BB15C7B5C214F81C32D3A83B32736019A0EC9@idbexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract) wrote: >> >> So, who's using these clients, and how effective have you been finding >> them? Any gotchas? How cool is it? Do they just plain suck? And more >> to the point, which one(s) should I start with on the short list? <snip> > > > I've used the rdesktop client for connecting to a Windows 2003 Server (/usr/ports/net/rdesktop). I wasn't that impressed but then again it could have been a PEBKAC situation. I could not get the screen resolution of the Windoze 2003 server to go anything beyond 640x480 and it looked horribly grainy. Other than that, it did actually connect and allowed me to do all that I needed to. I just couldn't handle the graphic element, which again may have been more a user issue than an issue with the program. Other than that, I have used the Windows RDC programs and they work ok. > > Thad I use rdesktop regularly to administer some of our Win2003 Servers, and it works well. Special trick is, that I need to hop first on a jumppad, where an extra NIC is attached to the dedicated management VLAN of the Win boxes, and then hop on them via X-forwarded rdesktop- works well, despite that jumppad is a small old crappy Pentium-II, which is also busy doing some other things... so: ssh -X jumppad rdesktop -g 1024x768 win-server That shall give you some window in 1024x768, normal is 800x600 in standard mode. when its smaller, I guess you havent configured the Graphics driver, or its set to standard VGA. Win (also for remote connections) sometimes looks after that settings... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@ohoyer.de Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)
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