Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:37:42 -0700 From: "Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)" <thad.butterworth@hp.com> To: "Olaf Hoyer" <ohoyer@ohoyer.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: RDEsktop/VNC questions Message-ID: <2D8BB15C7B5C214F81C32D3A83B32736019A120F@idbexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net [mailto:ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net] On >Behalf Of Olaf Hoyer >Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 1:20 AM >To: Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract) >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: RDEsktop/VNC questions > >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=20 >Win boxes, and then hop on them via X-forwarded rdesktop- works well,=20 >despite that jumppad is a small old crappy Pentium-II, which is also=20 >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=20 >standard mode. when its smaller, I guess you havent configured the=20 >Graphics driver, or its set to standard VGA. Win (also for remote=20 >connections) sometimes looks after that settings... > >HTH >Olaf > > >--=20 >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) Thanks. I'll have to try that. Thad
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