On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Adam Bagnall <bagna...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This is a little odd. >> >> I have a Windows 2008 Server (r1, 32-bit, SP2) box sitting here, right >> next to & on the same subnet as my Ubuntu 9.10 (64-bit) desktop PC. >> Both are patched fully up-to-date. >> >> I would like to use the Ubuntu machine to access the remote desktop on >> the Windows server. I normally use the Terminal Services client to do >> this, but it will not connect. It will from my XP laptop, it will from >> my Macs, but not from Ubuntu. >> >> Googling for info on this problem, eventually I found this: >> >> http://gerardmcgarry.com/blog/how-remotely-connect-ubuntu-a-windows-machine >> >> ... which told me about the "rdesktop" command. I tried it & to my >> surprise it worked instantly. >> >> The snag is, I'd prefer the resizable window and so on of tsclient to >> rdesktop. >> > > You could try using grdc (which has apparently recently been renamed > remmina. It was certainly grdc in the repos until Jaunty, I've not used it > since). I've found it to be far more reliable than tsclient and I believe it > has resizable windows that can show either scroll bars or scale the remote > desktop to fit.
Thanks for the suggestions! The odd thing is, both worked, and when searching the "Software Centre" I found yet another one, too - "Remotedesktop". This enabled me to trace why they all worked but TSclient didn't. Apparently, at least in TSclient, you *need* to have the "connect to console" tickybox checked. If not, I think it tries to create a /new/ session on the server /as well as/ the console, & since my server isn't a Terminal Server, it only supports 1 session so this operation fails. Eventually. Now that I know this, I can use TSclient & have removed the others. Many thanks! -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
