[FreeNX-kNX] Options for rdesktop

[Tobias Bäumlin]

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Thanks Chris for the quick answer
> freenx-knx-bounces at kde.org wrote on 05/12/2012 13:19:21:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm new within this mailing list, so please bear with me if I
> should start asking FAQs...
> 
> I finally succeeded in setting up a freenx server and so far 
> everything is working fine. The goal is ultimately to allow the
> user in a samba-Domain to access some Windows-Clients through
> freenx. As I understand it this is internally accomplished through
> the rdesktop
> 
>> Yup,  on the FreeNX server. . . so make sure you have rdesktop
>> installed on the FreeNX machine
> 
>> Configuration
> 
>> You select "windows" in nxclient . . i.e
> 
>> <Configure>(button)<General>(tab)<Desktop>(section) <select
>> windows>(in the drop down menus)then<settings>(button) add
>> server/domain - authentication - session type etc
> 
Did that, adding the domain solved my problem #1, authentication works
like a charm now.
>> and the FreeNX server details in 
>> <Configure>(button)<General>(tab)<Server>(section) etc
> 
> 
> program which allows some handy options (like -d for the
> logon-domain and -r disk: for adding shares). Now my question
> obviously is whether and how I can add those options for rdesktop
> to the nxserver configuration.
> 
> 
> 
>> NX runs X from the nxclient to the FreeNX server then runs
>> rdesktop on the FreeNX server in the FreeNX server X session
>> against your windows machine (the rdesktop screen coming back to
>> the nxclient over X)
> 
> 
> 
>> Domain login is selected in the nxclient configuration see
>> above.
> 
> 
>> Shares . . .
> 
>> NX mounts a CLIENT share on the FreeNX SERVER not a SERVER share
>> on the CLIENT but this isn't available for this type of
>> connection anyway so you need to mount your shares/printers via a
>> parallel connection so you may find it easier to
> 
>> ssh tunnel from the client workstation to the server site first
> 
>> connect the samba->windows shares directly over the tunnel then 
>> run nxclient against localhost
> 
>> but I haven't done this myself, not being a windows user
> 
I see that. The advantage of using the rdesktop '-r disk:' option
would be usability and maintance since we have 100+ teachers who
aren't all computer experts and configuration could be done on the
server-side.
> 
>> I'm guessing that this is what you are attempting to do . . .
> 
>> Let us know how you get on . . .
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards Tobias
> 
> 
> 
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