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rarsa · Last edited by rarsa on Wed 28 Feb 2007, 01:52; edited 9 times in total

The Remote desktop client is an application that allows you to connect to windows computers remotelly and use them as if you were sitting in front of them.

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I have updated the remote desktop client with the following features:

Cleaner interface:
- Converted the interface to be fully GTK2 compliant. It now looks noticeably better and follows your GTK theme.
- It now has the "simple" and "advanced" modes.

Persistent Profiles
- Added the ability to save a profile. This is: after you enter all the parameters you can save it to a file to reuse at a later time.

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I've included almost all the options available from the command line.

This upgrade was suggested in another thread
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=14706

Plus I always had the intention in the back of my mind and now I had some time. (surprisingly people are not reporting bugs with the new network wizard Wink

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Regarding the "art work":
I am no artists whatsoever so I just took the tango icon for remote desktop and assembled the header. If someone with more artistic aspirations wants to do something nicer such as reflections or glass effects I'll include it (try to keep the size of the file small). Just ask me for the Gimp file I created.

Regarding the base source code
Whenver you question why your source code should be clear and legible, consider that for the most part the changes to this program were made easier because the code is quite clean.

If you are interested in learning tcl or if you know tcl and want to learn gnocl, check the sourcecode. I've splitted the UI and the functionality in two different files.

Dependencies

To get the GTK compliance I used the gnocl toolkit. Download it from here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15639

WhoDo · Posted: Wed 24 Jan 2007, 02:56 Post subject:

Get it? Got it! GOOD!!! Razz

Love it and can highly recommend to others using RDP for remote access.

Cheers

paulh177 · Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 915 Location: ST862228

this looks excellent.
if i can find a vpn client that can emulate the microsoft vpn client, this removes a bit of problem for me
(i need to use vpn to get into my wor LAN then rdp to connect to a win2k3 terminal server)
I tried ppptpconfig but can't make it work properly

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2946 Location: Southampton, UK

Paul,
Did you try the pptpconfig dotpup I compiled.
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Network/pptpconfig-with-PhpGtk-4.4.4/
This is also available using the Puppy Software Installer if you have it.
You may need to install the full version of the 'ip' command available at the same place.
Turn the debug option on and post the log in a new thread. I'll try and help. As long as you have pptp in the subject line I know there are a few others here that understand at least some of the output. It took me ages to get it to work, now I use it everyday.

paulh177 · Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 915 Location: ST862228

OK thanks Will;
I don't think I've tried that version (the dotpup I had was just "ppptpconfig.pup") plus it was a couple of puppys ago.
I'll download it and give it a go when I have a moment, perhaps report back in a new thread so as not to hijack this one ...

Paul

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2946 Location: Southampton, UK

New dotpup works fine for me.
I notice that puppys man page for rdesktop seems out of step with the installed version. On the man page it states that the device redirection is only implemented for sound. Clearly this isn't true anymore.
With the map disk drive options I see that you have mapped the entire filesystem. This is probably the best option but may create some confusion for users who are expecting to get a number of physical devices mapped as in c:\\ d:\\ .

rarsa · Posted: Wed 24 Jan 2007, 11:29 Post subject:

Leon · Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 254

rarsa · Posted: Wed 24 Jan 2007, 12:45 Post subject:

Great!

I am going to upload the script to the Puppy Subversion repository to simplify this exchange.

I was going to upload it yesterday but it was too late and I was tired.

please send me an email to svnadmin@puppylinux.org so I can grant you write access to the repository.

(If you haven't used subversion with esvn, I will include instructions. It is quite easy)

Flash · Posted: Wed 24 Jan 2007, 13:26 Post subject:

Are there instructions anywhere that tell a beginner how to set up a remote desktop connection? (Both ends.)

Leon · Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 254

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2946 Location: Southampton, UK

paulh177 · Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 915 Location: ST862228

I installed the pptpconfig dotpup and the updated RDP client under puppy 2.13.
Once I remembered that there are 4 octets in an IP address (!), pptpconfig connected first time to the terminal server at work.
Then it took a little fiddling with the routing options to make the target internal IP address visible for RDP.
I had to set pptpconfig to "all to tunnel" to make it work, as I get really lost trying to work out netmasks and the intricacies of the route command ... so that part is not for beginners.

As far as the RDP client is concerned, I ran into usability problems with it.
I'm connecting to a Win2K3 desktop but whatever resolution I use I can't see the whole desktop -- in particular there aren't side scrollbars allowing me to "see" the taskbar and startbutton.
Also the screen update is pretty slow compared to my equivalent XP VPN/RDP setup.

paul

rarsa · Posted: Wed 24 Jan 2007, 17:56 Post subject:

Are you logging into an existing session that you opened in a monitor with a higher resolution?

I haven't seen those problems and I connect to XP, 2000, 2003 with different levels of service packs.

paulh177 · Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 915 Location: ST862228

No. Fresh sessions.

However I think that it happens when i start a new (or load a saved) session in which a desktop resolution is specified under the "Display" tab.
If this is "blank" (greyed out because not specified) then it starts a window which is correctly sized and doesn't crop the remote desktop.

note that I am testing this on puppy 2.13, Xorg, with a 800x600x16 screen res on the machine running puppy.