----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter.Kwaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 2:41 PM Subject: RE: Terminal Server -- Comments
> more importantly, you must be running a WIN32 client to use w2k term > services. > > no java client is available, no mac, no linux, no unix clients... > > at least not yet... > ... and furthermore, no X-terminal. Boring: >From Microsoft, you can have Terminal Server Clients for the following platforms: 32-bit Windows, 16-bit Windows, and Windows CE (Windows-based Terminals) Not so boring: At www.rdesktop.org you can get an open source Terminal Server Client for UNIX / X Window System. That probably takes care of all the UNIXs but porting it to a Macintosh is beyond my humble programming skills. It does fill a big hole, but since you can't run the program on an X-terminal, you still can't connect your X-terminal to Windows without the intervention of a UNIX box to run the RDP client on or a Citrix investment. Marginally interesting: Terminal Server "manufactures" multiple user contexts, unaware of and protected from one another. Each of those can run a copy of WinVNC (the VNC server) each with a different display hence different port. Any VNCviewer (Linux, Mac, java, Palm ...) can connect to any of those copies of WinVNC and have the dubious honor of a Windows 2000 desktop simultaneous with and independent of all the others. (Sadly, I don't know how to fire up these user contexts without the help of a "real" Terminal Server Client.) Still no help for X-terminal. More interesting: In addition to running WinVNC (the VNC server) in a Terminal Server context, one can also run Cygwin, a UNIX compatibility layer that simplifies porting UNIX programs to run on Windows. One such UNIX-to-Windows ported program is vncviewer which, if before you run it you "export DISPLAY=192.168.0.42:0.0", will display the Windows desktop on 192.168.0.42, which could be your X-terminal. (Again, I'm woefully ignorant of how to start these without a honest-to-god Terminal Server client.) Seems to me that all the spare parts are lying around. It appears from http://services.simac.be/vnc/gina.html that Rudi De Vos has figured out how to solver some of the startup-the-TS-session complications, but I've been unable to get his stuff working. Has anyone had any success with any of these non-mainstream uses? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
