Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

[Jeremy Wilkins <jeb at jeremywilkins dot freeserve dot co dot uk>]

I got bored again :)

just changed xwxdm to launch rdesktop instead (line 449 - xwxdm.c, from 
XwinX source), this works with a couple of issues;

i) rdesktop doesn't accept the --display parameter
ii) rdesktop doesn't support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authorization, which is 
what the xserver uses to make sure its the xdm server responding to it.

solution was to set xwxdm to launch

"DISPLAY=%s:%d rdesktop.exe -f localhost"

This seems to work fine, when I launch Xwin -ac -query winxpbox, the 
remote desktop pops up full screen in the window. Note this is with 
access control disabled.

I can only run 1 remote session at a time under XP, so I set xwxdm to 
launch xterm instead and found it will launch multiple sessions quite 
happily.

jeremy

PS: Let me know if this works - I'm quite interested in this.

Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
> I've had a thought about launching rdesktop from the windows term serv box.
>
> Xwinx(.sourceforge.net) had an app the accepted xdm requests and 
> launched xwinx, I think it only handled one connection at a time but I'd 
> of thought it would be quite simple to modify it to launch rdesktop, and 
> listen for multiple connections.
>
> You don't need to worry about authentication because the term serv login 
> will handle that, it can just run as an unprivilidged user.
>
> Its in the 0.03 src.
>
> jeb