Q: Remote desktop? (answered)

Hey people,
are RDP's available in linpus?
if so, what program i need to use and how do i install them.

 

Re: Q: Remote desktop?

Get the package rdesktop-1.6.0-1.fc8 to install the rdesktop client (so you can remotely control a windows box). To remote control the AAO, i'd suggest vnc-server.

 

Re: Q: Remote desktop?

Hey, thanks for your quick reaction.
i get an error now; "Nautilus browser is not active"

 

Re: Q: Remote desktop?

when do you get the error message?

 

Re: Q: Remote desktop?

when i try to run it via the browser

 

Re: Q: Remote desktop?

it's a command line utility, you have to type this kind of cmde in after pressing ALT+F2 : rdesktop -g 1024x600 ip_address_of_you_windows_rdp
I try it, it works fine but I don't manage to see the complete remote screen and no way to ajust the window, somebody knows a parameter or a tips to do it ?

 

Re: Q: Remote desktop?

awsome! thanks alot man, you realy helped me out here!

 

Open a terminal window and type "rdesktop" (without the " of course). This will display the available parameters.

So e.g. "rdesktop -f _your_IP_Address_" should open the remote window in full screen mode.

But then I have no clue how to switch back or close the remote window

Christian

 

Ctrl + Alt + Enter will toggle between full screen and slightly smaller screen so you can close the window or minimize it.

-Brian

 

Hello everyone, novice here... I use remote desktop extensively on windows and am trying to install rdesktop for my aspire one so I can control those machines but...I'm not sure how to install it. What I downloaded seems to be the source code, and I don't have a c compiler installed on the machine, or at least that's what it's telling me when I try to run ./configure as per the readme. It says configure: error: no accetable c compiler found in $PATH

I looked into this compiler called gcc but I dunno...Can somebody help me out?

 

You should be able to install it using "Add/Remove Software" (Alt+F2 "pirut" if you haven't enabled the "advanced desktop"). Select the Search tab and enter "rdesktop". Select "rdesktop-1.6.0.fc8.i386" and click Apply.

You may delete the source code you downloaded.

 

Works great, but is there a gui front end? its a pain to have to specify all the options and res everytime.. OR at least can you set default settings somewhere in a config file or the like?

 

Yep, you can create a shell script (equivalent of a windows batch file) to do the trick. That's what I did. Thanks btw to the other poster who mentioned how to install rdesktop through the package manager. Right after I posted I found that, and that has made things a lot easier.

Anyway on the shell script, just create a blank text file and enter the whole thing you want including hostname and password (I include -f because it really doesn't display right w/o the full screen) and save. Rename the file with a .sh extension. Then right click the file and open with bash (be sure to check that it opens this type of file with bash from now on... no idea why bash isn't the default app). It will work.

Used my windows knowledge to figure all that one out!

 

here's what is probably a stupid question: how do you get out of rdesktop. I tried the -f on the command line, and did indeed get a lovely full screen, but now i don't know how to close it, or minimize it. Probably somehting very simple that i don't know. Any help appreciated.

 

You can use tsclient, it is a wrapper that launches rdesktop with the options you provided in the connection screen, although the installation is a bit tricky, because of the modified packages from linpus that make incompatibilities with the fedora ones.

First run "yum install vnc" in the console as root, as tsclient also lets you connect to VNC servers in addition to RDP (or use the package manager to install vnc).

If you have not yet installed rdesktop, install it running "yum install rdesktop" as root in a console, or with your favourite package manager.

Then, download the tsclient package from any fedora 8 repository mirror (http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/...386/os/Packages/tsclient-0.150-5.fc8.i386.rpm) and save it in "Downloads" in your home directory, and then open a console window, change do your "Downloads" directory and run "rpm -ivh --nodeps tsclient-0.150-5.fc8.i386.rpm".

After that, you shoul have tsclient in your applications menu, or run it pressing Alt+F2 and enter "tsclient".