[FreeNX-kNX] Problems getting RDP to work.

[Stephen Kent]

If I invoke rdesktop from GNOME Command Line using the '-a 16' flag and
connecting to a windows workstation, rdesktop launches properly.

When I try to then connect remotely, I am met with a 256 color screen.
where do I need to add the -a flag to make it work for a Windows --> Linux
--> Windows setup?  nxdesktop_helper?  If so, where?

My nxdesktop_helper looks like this:
#####################################################
#!/bin/sh
#
# nxdesktop_helper - Small helper for external rdesktop program as needed by
NX 3.0.0 backend.
#
# Copyright (c) 2007 by Fabian Franz <freenx at fabian-franz.de>
#
# License: GPL, v2
#
# SVN: $Id $
#

[ -z "$COMMAND_RDESKTOP" ] && COMMAND_RDESKTOP="rdesktop"

# setup commandline
set -- -f -u "$agent_user" -k "$agent_keyboard" -d "$agent_domain"
"$agent_server"

if [ -n "$agent_password" ]
then
    echo $agent_password | $COMMAND_RDESKTOP -p - "$@"
else
    $COMMAND_RDESKTOP "$@"
fi
###### End nxdesktop_helper ###############

Thanks for your help,

Steve

On 11/13/07, Konrad J Hambrick <konrad at jax01.payplus.com> wrote:
>
> 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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