[K12OSN] Re: Windows Terminal Services and rdesktop question

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 15:24, jam at mcquil.com wrote:

> This isn't exactly what you were looking for.  But, maybe you
> could set it on SCREEN_02, and then press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to
> it.

I've never been able to make this work.  It tries to start an
X session which fails because it uses the same virtual console
as the SCREEN_01 session.  It it supposed to work this way?

> To achieve what you are really asking for, you'd need to setup rdesktop 
> as a local app.  The binary is already there, so it's just a matter of 
> getting it to launch.  You would use ssh for that.  This requires 
> setting up the public and private keys, and NIS.

Would it be difficult to make it LDAP or other PAM modes of
authentication instead?   If you have moderately fast clients
you could take a load off the server by running several apps
this way.  If you NFS mount the same home dir, the ssh keys
would be easy to arrange and apps would see the same files.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com