[rdesktop-devel] RemoteApp

[Marc-A. M. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi,

I am new to this mailing list. I am particularly interested in a new
extension to the remote desktop protocol added in version 6.1, RemoteApp. It
is something designed to remotely access individual applications, just like
remote desktop but without the desktop. I have tried seamlessrdp but it is
not that good, it has some glitches and it is much of a hack being built on
something that was not really designed for it. The downside to RemoteApp is
that currently only Windows Server 2008 can act as a server. However, an
evaluation version of Windows Server 2008 can be downloaded from Microsoft's
website here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=13C7300E-935C-415A-A79C-538E933D5424&displaylang=en

I'm not sure about that, but I think Microsoft might also give the full
version for free for students only. Assuming you have a Windows Server 2008
machine on your network, all you'd need now is a Linux client compatible
with the latest additions to the protocol so that you could run Windows
applications on your Linux system, seamlessly and without the glitches of
seamlessrdp. That would be awesome.

I want to know, has work been started to add RemoteApp support? RemoteApp
compatible clients are available on Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista.
Looking at MSDN, I've seen that the documentation on the remote desktop
protocol only goes up to version 5.2, so this extension is undocumented.
Wireshark, here we go...