[FreeNX-kNX] Using freenx to connect to a Windows Desktopserver (aka Terminalserver)

[Tobias Bäumlin]

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Hi

I have found an issue in the freenx implementation that I think might
be a bug:

When using freenx to connect to a Windows terminalserver I always got
an error from that, saying that it couldn't find a program named
/usr/bin/nxdesktop_helper and the user was logged out immediately,
whereas connecting to a normal Windows workstation worked fine.

After some digging I came up with the following line in the script
/usr/bin/nxdesktop_helper on the freenx server:

set -- -u "$agent_user" -k "$agent_keyboard" -d "$agent_domain" -f -s
"$windows_app" $AGENT_EXTRA_OPTIONS_RDP "$agent_server"

and the value of $windows_app apparently is
"/usr/bin/nxdesktop_helper", so the terminal server tries to run the
said program on login and pathetically fails to do so... voilà the
user is immediately logged out.

As a workaround I just deleted the '-s "$windows_app"' bit in the
above line and connecting to my terminal server works fine:

set -- -u "$agent_user" -k "$agent_keyboard" -d "$agent_domain" -f
$AGENT_EXTRA_OPTIONS_RDP "$agent_server"


I fail to see though whether there are scenarios where the -s
parameter for rdesktop is actually useful?
(Trying to run '/usr/bin/nxdesktop_helper' on a windows machine
obviously isn't...)

Regards
Tobias



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Tobias Bäumlin / ID Gymnasium Neufeld / Bremgartenstrasse 133 / 3012 Bern
+41 31 635 30 46
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