Re: [rdesktop-devel] rdesktop load balancing code

[Alexander T <mit...@gm...>]

Hi,

I had the same problem and worked out a solution with the FreeRDP
developers which are forking rdesktop to include new features like
this. Try their mailing list or just check out head and see if it
works for you. It's been working for me.

Best regards,

Alexander

On 9/18/10, Wolf Schmidt <wol...@go...> wrote:
> Good Day rdesktop developers,
>
> can i jump in with a question? Has the status of Microsoft document
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/6/2/8624174c-8587-4a37-8722-00139613a5bc/TS_Session_Directory.doc
>
> been discussed? Am i allowed to know, or even to use the information
> in there for
> purposes of OS development?
>
> If this information especially pages 27-28 is copyrighted/patented,
> somebody might have
> to come up with a scheme to figure out the protocol from dumps. It seems to
> be
> necessary for successful RDP connections to some proxys/brokers.
>
> We have a customer with some 20 Linux Thin clients who wants to move
> from Terminal
> server to a Sun/Oracle VDI solution. Running some preliminary tests,
> we noticed, that
> Linux based clients could not connect to VDI, whereas XP and even CE
> clients did.
>
> Even full Linux Workstations could not connect, so i decided to locate
> the problem.
> This proved to be surprisingly easy, and almost as easy to fix, using
> the information
> in above document. So this is, where i became suspicious. Am i, or are
> you legally
> forbidden to use the information in the Microsoft document?
>
> I have successfully tested a simple redirect token modification against
> rdesktop 1.6.0 stable.
> I can provide diffs for regression or build tests. I can not provide a test
> case
> for the mod.
> Sun/Oracle VDI rdp broker can be used for tests, see Oracle VDI:
> http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/oraclevm/061153.html
>
> You can see the problem mentioned here:
> http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=992&threadID=5398718
>
> Thank you for your time, best regards
>
> Wolf Schmidt
>
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