From: Adam B. <ad...@ro...> - 2005-08-31 19:19:50
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Ahhh, understood...=20 Another thing that I found pretty good was that since my users run their rdesktop sessions across multiple screens (4096x1536 and 3200x1200 resolutions - something Micro$haft's mstsc.exe doesn't do!), and then I VNC into the session instead of the thin client, I can see the entire desktop instead of just screen 0 or 1. Thanks Chris for the info! =20 Appreciate it! -- Adam -----Original Message----- From: Chris Gianelloni [mailto:wol...@ge...]=20 Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:05 PM To: rde...@li... Subject: Re: [rdesktop-devel] Cool, but not sure if it's normal or not??? :-) On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 13:54 -0400, Adam Bil wrote: > I was playing around today and VNC'd into an XP virtual machine that a > user was RDP'd into. I ended up controlling his session!!! What I=20 > thought was going to happen is that I would connect to the machine's=20 > console and I'd have to authenticate (and eventually knock off the > user) and log in. I personally LIKE the fact that I can VNC a session > because this is an alternative way to remotely administer a machine. > Previously, I had X11VNC running on the box to actually control the=20 > box but now I can disable that daemon and just control the session via > a VNC to that virtual machine's IP address as opposed to the client's=20 > thin client IP. I NEVER knew this was possible... Is this something=20 > that rdesktop is enabling? ;-) Actually, I think that is more a function of Windows XP. See, the Remote Desktop in Windows XP is pretty well castrated. It essentially backgrounds whatever is on the console and logs the user into a "new" console. Using VNC on a XP box will give you control over the RDP session. Using VNC on an actual Terminal Server, of course, will not, as it makes a distinction between the console and a remote user, whereas XP does not. It would do the same thing if your client was a Windows box, connected to XP, and you used VNC to connect to the XP box. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux |