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

Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhunter at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 14:55:45 UTC 2012


Speaking of your issue, is there any documentation on how to set up NX or
FreeNX to connect to a Windows server?

I haven't been able to find any on Google searches, and it I'm guessing
that you have to go through another NX server - is this the correct method?

Thanks in advance.

-Alex

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Stefan Baur
<newsgroups.mail2 at stefanbaur.de>wrote:

> Hi Tobias,
>
> while I haven't looked at the code, I'd guess that what it was *meant* to
> do is set $windows_app to the value of the *output* of the nxdesktop_helper
> script.
>
> That would make sense in a way, say, running "iexplore.exe
> http://custom-url-passed-from-**client<http://custom-url-passed-from-client>"
> or opening an office document that has been downloaded on the Client in a
> Microsoft Office appication running on the Terminal Server, assuming the
> file location is somehow made available (and the path properly parsed) on
> the Terminal Server.
>
> I've seen such beasts in commercial Terminal Server/Citrix environments.
>
> -Stefan

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