Re: [Thinstation-general] rdesktop issue

[Roine G. <ro...@us...>]

This seems more like an rdesktop-issue than a Thinstation-issue. Thus=20
you might have more luck asking on the rdesktop mailinglist.

Apparently the new session balancing feature of w2k3 isn't currently=20
supported by rdesktop, but using a hardware load balancer against w2ks=20=

should work. You might want to try the CVS version of rdesktop instead=20=

of the (now very old) last released 1.3.1 which Thinstation uses.

To compile rdesktop for Thinstation, you *must* use the Thinstation=20
build environment. Otherwise the library links and built-in paths will=20=

be all wrong.

Does it work better if you bypass the load balancer and give=20
Thinstation just one of the servers, e.g. x.x.x.11 ?


   /Roine

On Tuesday, Jul 6, 2004, at 21:17 Europe/Stockholm, L=E9on Keijser =
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> [intro]
> After unsuccesfully trying PXES, i've switched to Thinstation and so
> far i'm impressed. Setup was a breeze and before i knew it, i saw the
> long-expected TS login prompt.
>
> [problem]
> We have a cluster of 4 terminal servers (all win2k). When somebody
> connects to tscluster, that user is redirected according to load
> balancing to one of the TS's. Unfortunately it (rdesktop) doesn't
> connect flawlessly. I have to connect 4 or 5 times before it finally
> works. There are no errors in the logfiles from XFree and syslog. It
> just drops back to the menu, and if i set SESSION_X_AUTOSTART to On,
> it tries to connect a couple of times before giving a msg box
> 'reconnect y/n'.
>
> [thoughts]
> I've tried adding a custom compiled rdesktop, but unfortunately that
> depends on a different libc than the Thinclient version was compiled
> against. So i included libc-6-something in the /lib dir, but this
> makes the ramdisk too big (i think), since it doesn't go past
> downloading the image from tftp. I'm not even sure it is in the
> rdesktop bin anyway.
> I thought it could be the cluster. It's one ip x.x.x.10 that points to
> x.x.x.11-14, maybe the client expects a reply from .10 and receives
> one from 11, and drops back to the menu. I have no idea (no logs).
>
>
> I hope anyone can point me in the right direction :)
>
>
> L=E9on
>
>
>
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