[K12OSN] RDP Client

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 10:14 -0400, David Trask wrote:
> "Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
> Tue Sep 12 2006 at 02:43 +0000 wrote:
> >Does anyone know of any good RDP clients for Linux? I need to connect to
> >a Windows 2003 Terminal Server and have sound work. I am using rdesktop,
> >but the sound does not work. I am open to new ideas to get sound to my
> >thin clients from the win box as well. 
> >
> >Tim
> 
> Tim...sound is a problem...you can only have one or the other....Linux or
> Windows (at terminal boot time).  Gideon Romm has documented how to get
> sound running in Windows TS on his site....although...take a look here as
> well....haven't tried this yet, but looks promising
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2006-February/msg00357.html

I have gotten esd to blend sounds from several different terminals
before but it was quite a production.  The basic problem is that by
default, the sound daemon that runs on the clients (esd) allows one
server to connect to it and give sound events.  Future servers have to
authenticate.  But -- the directory that esd stores its per-user
authentication information in is read-only on the clients, thus no
future clients are able to connect.

Gideon's email (above) mentions the -promiscuous flag which was one
piece of getting this to work.  There were others, though, which I'm not
remembering right now.  We set this up (with Gideon's help) on a test
network which is unfortunately no longer in existence.  I've been
thinking of looking into the root cause (making the directory that esd
writes to read-write) but haven't had the time.

-Toshio
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