about remote desktop control

flyspring · April 26, 2011, 11:48am

Dear all,
My OS is openSuse 11.4. I want to control my PC which is my office room by remote desktop when I am at home. Can you tell me what should I do to my PC? Which software or programs should be installed on it? How to setup it? Or is there any website which has summarized the instructions? Thank you very much.

beli0135 · April 26, 2011, 12:39pm

and PC’s OS is?
it is different if you wish to control Linux to Linux, of Linux to Windows, and there are few ways to do it, depending on source and target OS.

flyspring · April 26, 2011, 1:17pm

I use laptop at home. Its OS is Windows XP. That means I want to connect from Windows XP (my laptop) to openSUSE (my PC in office room).

martin_helm · April 26, 2011, 1:32pm

flyspring wrote:

>
> Dear all,
> My OS is openSuse 11.4. I want to control my PC which is my office room
> by remote desktop when I am at home. Can you tell me what should I do to
> my PC? Which software or programs should be installed on it? How to
> setup it? Or is there any website which has summarized the instructions?
> Thank you very much.
>
If the other PC is windows and you want to use “remote desktop” in the
windows sense of the word install rdesktop in openSUSE. It is a command line
tool.
If in addition you want a gui use krdc if you are on KDE.

flyspring · April 26, 2011, 1:51pm

I am on gnome.

martin_helm · April 26, 2011, 1:45pm

flyspring wrote:

>
> beli0135;2329881 Wrote:
>> and PC’s OS is?
>> it is different if you wish to control Linux to Linux, of Linux to
>> Windows, and there are few ways to do it, depending on source and target
>> OS.
>
> I use laptop at home. Its OS is Windows XP. That means I want to
> connect from Windows XP (my laptop) to openSUSE (my PC in office room).
>
>
So it is the other way than I guessed. Have a look at this
http://opensuse.swerdna.org/suserdp.html
it is for 11.2 and 11.3 but chances are good that it works the same for
11.4.
Otherwise I would use vnc which is available for windows and linux.

flyspring · April 26, 2011, 3:02pm

martin_helm:

flyspring wrote:

>
> beli0135;2329881 Wrote:
>> and PC’s OS is?
>> it is different if you wish to control Linux to Linux, of Linux to
>> Windows, and there are few ways to do it, depending on source and target
>> OS.
>
> I use laptop at home. Its OS is Windows XP. That means I want to
> connect from Windows XP (my laptop) to openSUSE (my PC in office room).
>
>
So it is the other way than I guessed. Have a look at this
Windows Linux RDP Remote Desktop Connections using openSUSE as Client or Server (terminal server)
it is for 11.2 and 11.3 but chances are good that it works the same for
11.4.
Otherwise I would use vnc which is available for windows and linux.

–
PC: oS 11.3 64 bit | Intel Core2 Quad Q8300@2.50GHz | KDE 4.6.2 | GeForce
9600 GT | 4GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.6.0 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram

Thanks. I will try Windows Linux RDP Remote Desktop Connections using openSUSE as Client or Server (terminal server) firstly.

martin_helm · April 26, 2011, 3:25pm

But be warned that I did not test it with 11.4, so if it fails just go for
vnc.

flyspring · May 1, 2011, 2:30pm

Hi Martin,
I failed to intall the xorg-x11-server-dmx-7.3.99-29.8.x86-64.rpm with the warning message: nothing to provides libcrypto.so.0.9.8()(64bit) needed by xorg-x11-server-dmx-7.3.99-29.8.x86_64.
How to go on then? Any suggestion?
Thanks.

martin_helm · May 1, 2011, 2:54pm

flyspring wrote:

>
> Hi Martin,
> I failed to intall the xorg-x11-server-dmx-7.3.99-29.8.x86-64.rpm with
> the warning message: nothing to provides libcrypto.so.0.9.8()(64bit)
> needed by xorg-x11-server-dmx-7.3.99-29.8.x86_64.
> How to go on then? Any suggestion?
> Thanks.
>
Try to install the package libopenssl0_9_8.

flyspring · May 1, 2011, 3:51pm

When can I download it? In my software manager I only see libopenssl-devel, libopenssl1_0_0 and libopenssl1_0_0-32bit and all of them have been installed.

martin_helm · May 1, 2011, 5:22pm

flyspring wrote:
> When can I download it? In my software manager I only see
> libopenssl-devel, libopenssl1_0_0 and libopenssl1_0_0-32bit and all of
> them have been installed.
>
http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=libopenssl0_9_8&baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.4&lang=en&exclude_debug=true

11.4 standard

flyspring · May 1, 2011, 6:50pm

Hi Martin,
Thanks. I have downloaded it and installed xrdp RPMs successfully on my PC. I am able to connect to my PC in office from my laptop at home now. But there are still problems. I can log in my PC and open some software like Terminal and Nautilus. But if I input only one letter (any one) by keyboard, then I can’t input any other letters. That means once I clicked on keyboard, all running program which was in graphic interface stuck. And the buttons of “minimize, maxized and close window” of all graphic interface disappear. While mouse was still working. I can open other software or pragrams by clicking on their icon but I can’t input any command. And all the new-opened interface has no buttons of “minimize, maxized and close window”. I have no choice but to shut off the romote connection.

Do you know what is the reason? Or anybody can give some suggestions? Thanks.

martin_helm · May 1, 2011, 7:49pm

flyspring wrote:
> Do you know what is the reason?
Not really, based on the applications you mentioned I guess it can be
related to compiz if you use that (at least it seems to be related to the
window manager if the decorations are not there). I would disable it and see
if it makes a difference to nail the problem down.
Otherwise I cannot be of much help.

martin_helm · May 1, 2011, 7:58pm

Tkae also a close look at the sesman.ini it contains some possibilities to
affect the window manager used in the session.

flyspring · May 2, 2011, 10:57am

Hi,
How to disable it?

flyspring · May 2, 2011, 11:00am

Where is the file sesman.ini?

martin_helm · May 2, 2011, 11:34am

flyspring wrote:
> Hi,
> How to disable it?
>
In your gnome control center disable desktop effects for testing. Of course
I simply guess here that you choose gnome as session type when you do your
remote login.

martin_helm · May 2, 2011, 11:44am

flyspring wrote:
> Where is the file sesman.ini?
>
By default you have only a /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini, as far as I remember
the sesman.in is optional and gives you more flexibility to set your
session parameters.
“man sesman.ini” will show you more and contains an example.

martin_helm · May 2, 2011, 12:02pm

martin_helm wrote:

> as far as I remember the sesman.in is optional
I have to correct that, I checked that on my machine with xrdp and it is
there in /etc/xrdp, I never touched it so I can give you no deeper insight
than the advise to look into the manpage.