[rdesktop-devel] RE: [rdesktop-users] rdesktop-1.3.1 reports 127.0.0.1 as IP-addre ss?

[Marijn H. <m.h...@de...>]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, the /etc/hostname file contains
only one line with one token, the hostname, just like it should be.

I have been double-checking the network config of the clients, as well as
the samba configuration file, but without success.

I suppose I could add the ip-address of the client computer to the
/etc/hostname file in the way you mentioned (the dhcp server assigns a
static ip-address based on mac-address), but that would eliminate the idea
of being able to manage the entire pool of ip-addresses through the DHCP and
DNS server consoles.

Maybe a developer could shed some light on this? Or should I post to
rdesktop-devel as well?

Thanks,

- Marijn Hofstra

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>Hi,
>
>and I suspected to find "Red Hat" at the end in the Linux spec ;-)
>Red Hat adds an entry for the computername in /etc/hosts like follows:
>
>127.0.0.1	hostname
>
>e.g.
>
>127.0.0.1	myhost
>
>I hope, Debian is not doing the same stupid thing.
>It might still be worth checking.
>
>Regards,
>
>Norbert Bladt.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Marijn Hofstra [SMTP:m.h...@de...]
>> Sent:	Monday, May 03, 2004 3:46 PM
>> To:	'rde...@li...'
>> Subject:	[rdesktop-users] rdesktop-1.3.1 reports 127.0.0.1 as
>> IP-address?
>> 
>> I have recently downloaded a vbscript "plugin" called "simple COM-wrapper
>> for Terminal Services Manager". You can find it at
>> http://kentldyer.com/index.htm under "KIX scripts", look for
>> wtsmanager.zip.
>> 
>> After registering the supplied DLL on a terminal server, it allows me to
>> list any and all information about all sessions on that server with a few
>> lines of VBScript, such as the session status and, what I actually wanted
>> to
>> use it for, the IP-address and netbios name of the client computer. On
>> Win98/2k/XP workstations, this works like a charm. I can now retrieve the
>> current workstation name and ip-address, instead of just the workstation
>> that was used during the initial login.
>> 
>> However, when I run the script when logged in using a linux client (specs
>> are below), the script reports 127.0.0.1 as the IP-address. The
>> netbios-name
>> is detected correctly (samba is installed for cdrom+floppy access).
>> Although
>> it's not a problem for me (I can easily find the IP-address using the
>> DNS-entry for the netbios-name), I think that rdesktop is not reporting
>> the
>> correct IP-address. If I connect to the same session using a Windows
>> client,
>> then the script reports the correct address again (the name and
ip-address
>> of the windows client).
>> 
>> Two servers are running using NLB. Connecting to the shared ip-address or
>> the private ip-address of one of the servers gives, as far as I have
>> tested,
>> the same result. The linux client is a member of the same domain the
>> Terminal Server is in.
>> 
>> I have tested this on multiple (identical) linux clients with the same
>> results. Did I forget or misconfigure something?
>> 
>> - Marijn Hofstra
>> 
>> Here are the specs (listing all that I think is relevant).
>> 
>> Server: 
>> 2x Windows 2003 Terminal Server, Standard edition
>> 
>> Linux-client:
>> Debian v3.0-r2
>> Booting via DHCP
>> Samba version 3.02a-Debian
>> rdesktop version: 1.3.1
>> 
>> Windows-clients are booting via DHCP as well