The post’s author indicates that he was using Microsoft’s Terminal Server Client (mstsc.exe) to connect and login to a SUSE/OpenSUSE server.
I have seen references by others on other distro sites alluding that they’ve used this method to logon to Linux and get a desktop same as if they were at the SUSE console when you login to GNOME/KDE.
But every time I have asked in the other forums, no-one ever follows up and says either “yes” or “No” about this ability.
Further, I have not seen any document(s) on this ability.
Maybe Microsoft restricts anyone telling the Linux community about this ability (If this ability is true)
Maybe Linux is contractually restricted to NOT let the community know about this ability.
Does anyone know or have heard about this?
And does anyone know what needs to be done on the server so that the server will allow an “X” session over TCP port 3389 to a Windows client whose trying to get a logon screen to run a SUSE user session of KDE/GNOME?
I’ve done its with VNC, and as far as I know there is no way to use M$
terminal client to do it
VampirD
Microsoft Windows is like air conditioning
Stops working when you open a window.
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Yup, possible. Part of SLED 11 too. It requires compiz as I recall for
it to work, which is why it is not an option for SLES 11. I think
OpenSUSE has it regardless of whether you use it for a desktop or a server.
Good luck.
On 02/26/2010 01:36 PM, gcmartin3 wrote:
>
> I just saw a post that got my attention
>
> The post’s author indicates that he was using Microsoft’s Terminal
> Server Client (mstsc.exe) to connect and login to a SUSE/OpenSUSE
> server.
>
> I have seen references by others on other distro sites alluding that
> they’ve used this method to logon to Linux and get a desktop same as if
> they were at the SUSE console when you login to GNOME/KDE.
>
> But every time I have asked in the other forums, no-one ever follows up
> and says either “yes” or “No” about this ability.
>
> Further, I have not seen any document(s) on this ability.
>
> Maybe Microsoft restricts anyone telling the Linux community about this
> ability (If this ability is true)
>
> Maybe Linux is contractually restricted to NOT let the community know
> about this ability.
>
>
> - Does anyone know or have heard about this?
> - And does anyone know what needs to be done on the server so that
> the server will allow an “X” session over TCP port 3389 to a Windows
> client whose trying to get a logon screen to run a SUSE user session
> of KDE/GNOME?
>
>
> This request was prompted by this OpenSuse forum posting.
> ‘Remote desktop to SUSE from Windows - openSUSE Forums’
> (http://tinyurl.com/y8q3rue)
>
>
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I don’t know about port 3389, but to get a logon screen which would let you chose between Gnome, KDE and others available wms on your Linux box, use Nomachine NX on the Linux server and No Machine NX Client on the Windows client. Set EnableDirectXdmQuery in /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg on the server an issu a XDM query from your client.
See this post: start kde from MAC OS X - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums
If you have apache running on the server and install webcompanion from Nomachine, you don’t even need a client on the Windows side (just a plugin installed from the server).
As mentioned by please_try_again, if you install Nomachine’s NX server in Linux, you can access it from other OSes like Windo$, Mac and other Linux machines. They also have a commercial version with more features.
