Re: tsclient
On Monday 13,August,2012 08:23 PM, Worrier Poet wrote:
> On 08/13/2012 04:19 AM, lina wrote:
>> On Monday 13,August,2012 04:06 PM, Dom wrote:
>>> On 13/08/12 07:18, lina wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Before I have the tsclient installed in wheezy,
>>>>
>>>> one thing pretty weird, I can access one remote machine without problem,
>>>> but for another, similar one always report the access of session is
>>>> denied, which has no problem in accessing from other computer.
>>>>
>>>> So I purge it and decide to re-install.
>>>>
>>>> Now started to realize that there in no tsclient for wheezy,
>>>> and quite interesting is that
>>>>
>>>> for squeeze it's 0.150-4
>>>> for sid one it's 0.150-2
>>>>
>>>> I don't know which one is better for wheezy one, and can't find the bug
>>>> report in the debian package tracking system.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks ahead for your suggestions, or are there some alternative one?
>>>> like tsclient.
>>>>
>>>
>>> From tsclient bug 547314:
>>>
>>> "tsclient has been unmaintained upstream for a long time.
>>> We have kept it because we lacked a client for RDP, but
>>> now that grdc is in the archive, which is maintained and
>>> much better than tsclient, it can be removed."
>>
>> Thank you. I failed to find this bug report.
>>
>> Now I switched to the remina, it's quite good.
>>>
>>> Mentioned as another alternative later in that bug report is remmina.
>>> (grdc is now a dummy package in squeeze that depends on remmina)
>>>
>>
>> Thanks with best regards,
>>
>>
>
> I have used remmina for some time on Wheezy / Xfce but have periodically
> run into client session crashes when using it for admin chores on
> Windows domains. The application also has some minor general interface
> usability issues under Xfce (4.8) when using all but 3 or 4 of the
> available appearance themes, but I suspect those glitches may not occur
> under Gnome.
>
> If you should run into these or other problems with remmina, you might
> consider using rdesktop from the repositories. This is a much simpler
> remote desktop client used from within a terminal emulator and is rock
> solid. It may have issues with upstream maintenance. I remember that
> some time ago it was temporarily removed from the testing repositories.
> Not quite sure of its status in re to that now, but it is back in the
> repositories.
That's very nice of you,
today I also tried the rdesktop from command line,
the command I typed not cooperate so well, so basically not succeed yet.
The command I tried:
$ rdesktop -u lina -n sms-gpgpu-w1.staff.main.somethingelse.com -s
the_domain -p passwd
Thanks,
Regards,
>
> Just thought you should know of the alternative if you have problems
> with remmina.
>
> Good fortune to you!
> the worrier
>
>
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