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RE: Possibility of RDP server for Linux?
WINE already does this. It'll eventually come to the point where Wine's GDI32 can drop
in as a replacement for MS's and *poof* you'd be done.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:11:54 -0500 (EST), Brian Adam Pike wrote:
>I had the idea a few months ago to write wrappers for some of the core
>DLLs in Windows (a la gdi32.dll) to catch graphics commands, consult a
>lookup table, translate the graphics command to a different protocol
>(X/RDP/VNC/?), and transmit the resulting information. The lookup table
>would be used to figure out where the information needs to be sent, so you
>could have multiple simultaneous connections; effectively, multiple users
>running applications at the same time. Does anyone think this is
>feasible? I thought it might be a good idea, did a quick search on
>google, and I think I found a commercial product or two that essentially
>do this.
>
>Does this seem like it would work? If so, how? Even if we were only able
>to get a single application to 'export' for every connection, that would
>be fine by my standards. I'm not very familiar with NT/2K/XP security
>models.
>
>Any idea on licensing for this? It seems like all of the applications are
>running on a single machine, and not using the RDP subsystem of the
>machine... would this bypass the really expensive licensing restrictions?
>
>If it were possible to have a single (win2k/xp) machine in an office that
>was the office's MS Office or Outlook server, while avoiding the cost of
>a terminal server and win2k licenses for every client that connects... it
>seems like this would be quite a popular piece of software.
>
>If viable (that's what I'm offerring this idea up for--please shred it and
>tell me why it won't work) I think this would be much, much more useful
>than a RDP linux server. Probably harder to code, but more useful.
>
>This makes me wonder how many people from M$ monitor this list.
>
>-Brian
>
>On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Todd Meade wrote:
>
>> Doesn't VNC already fill this gap? Why a RDP specific protocol server for
>> Linux? Are the RDP clients that much better than a RFB/VNC client, where a
>> completely open source RFP alternative already exists; with a full range of
>> clients (including browser/java) for just about any platform one would be
>> using?
>>
>> Yes, a VNC server on Windows is very slow compared to an RDP server on
>> Windows, but that is because because of the closed source nature of Windows.
>> However, connecting to a Linux/UNIX VNC server from a vnclient is comparable
>> to connecting a RDP server on Windows in my experience.
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Peter Byström [mailto:peter.bystrom@ub.oru.se]
>> > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 11:44 PM
>> > To: rdesktop@rdesktop.org
>> > Subject: Re: Possibility of RDP server for Linux?
>> >
>> >
>> > the patches at bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop contains some
>> > server code, it
>> > hasn't been tested in a while... :\ you need to fiddle with
>> > the makefile to
>> > compile it. :\ it only works for rdesktop clients.....
>> >
>> > it definitely need some work.
>> >
>> >
>> > regards,
>> >
>> > peter
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > G Hasse wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Bernd Christiansen wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Johannes E. Schindelin have made a library to make programs that
>> > > can talk to vncviewers. This library must be a good
>> > startingpoint... Or?
>> > >
>> > > GH
>> > >
>> > > ---snip---
>> > >
>> > > > Somebody on this list did a VNC to RDP proxy. Who? I
>> > remember that person
>> > > > stating that his or her server would work fine with
>> > rdesktop, but not
>> > > > WinTerms. His or her work might be a good starting
>> > point. Also, the VNC
>> > >
>> > > LibVNCServer: a library for easy implementation of a RDP/VNC server.
>> > > Copyright (C) 2001 Johannes E. Schindelin
>> > >
>> > > What is it?
>> > > -----------
>> > >
>> > > VNC is a set of programs using the RFB (Remote Frame
>> > Buffer) protocol.
>> > > They
>> > > are designed to "export" a frame buffer via net (if you
>> > don't know VNC, I
>> > > suggest you read "Basics" below). It is already in wide use for
>> > > administration, but it is not that easy to program a server
>> > yourself.
>> > >
>> > > ...
>> > >
>> > > At the same time, the program "rdesktop" (a native Linux
>> > client for the
>> > > Terminal Services of Windows servers) came to my attention.
>> > There where
>> > > even works under way to make a protocol converter "rdp2vnc"
>> > out of this.
>> > > However, my primary goal was a slow connection and rdp2vnc
>> > could only
>> > > speak RRE encoding, which is not that funny with just
>> > 5kB/s. Tim Edmonds,
>> > > the original author of rdp2vnc, suggested that I adapt it to Hextile
>> > > Encoding, which is better. I first tried that, but had no
>> > success at all
>> > > (crunchy pictures).
>> > >
>> > > Contact
>> > > -------
>> > > To contact me, mail me: Johannes dot Schindelin at gmx dot de
>> > >
>> > > --- snipp ---
>> > >
>> > > But to my oppinion X Window is a better consept in the long
>> > > run. Together with ssh -X it is very strong.
>> > >
>> > > GH
>> > >
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>> >
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