[FreeNX-kNX] Problems getting RDP to work.

[Konrad J Hambrick]

Steve --

When you invoked rdesktop from within GNOME,
did you include the -a flag ?

    rdesktop -a 16            # man rdesktop

-- kjh

On 11/13/2007 09:44 AM, Stephen Kent wrote:
> Ok.  That worked great.  I had to learn a few new things but that is  
> a good thing.  Now my issue is that I'd like the connections to be in  
> full color.  In the setup of NX Client for Windows 3, I have checked  
> the custom settings and selected 16M colors.  Connecting then still  
> only gives me 256 colors.
> 
> Any ideas on this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Iain Paton wrote:
> 
>> Stephen Kent wrote:
>>> I am trying to get FreeNX configured on CentOS 5 so that I can  
>>> tunnel RDP sessions through.  I have followed all of the  
>>> instructions at
>>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
>> those instructions are somewhat dated, you may want to do some more  
>> digging when using a 3.0.0 backend.
>>
>>> I can easily connect to my GNOME desktop on the CentOS computer  
>>> but when I try to change the connection type to Window RDP, it  
>>> looks like it is going to connect but the window disappears I get  
>>> the following when I try to connect:
>> freenx isn't the greatest at logging failures, I had lots of  
>> problems with the window simply closing with no clue as to the  
>> error while getting 3.0.0 running.
>>
>> Here's what I did:
>>
>> 1. grab the latest freenx from svn, some stuff for 3.0.0 backend is  
>> missing in 0.7.1
>> 2. install rdesktop: http://www.rdesktop.org/ or potentially  
>> whatever comes with your distro. This seems to have changed with  
>> the 3.0.0 backend, it wants the external rdesktop prog and not the  
>> nxdesktop variant. I'm using rdesktop 1.5.0.
>> 3. make sure your freenx has nxdesktop_helper installed in the  
>> appropriate place
>> 4. in node.conf add/change to the following:
>> # The key that contains the name of the complete path of the  
>> 'rdesktop' command.
>> COMMAND_RDESKTOP=rdesktop
>>
>> and possibly also
>>
>> # If nxdesktop cannot be found this is set automatically to "1".
>> ENABLE_EXTERNAL_NXDESKTOP="1"
>>
>> although I didn't need that as I killed off nxdesktop when I  
>> removed the previous version.
>>
>> YMMV, but this works for me using the !M 3.0.0-84 client from linux  
>> and has worked for others using the !M windows client.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Iain
>>
> 
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