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Connecting to Windows 7 Remote Desktops (RDP) from Fedora 14 using the app FreeRDP

Background

In newer versions of Remote Desktop (RDP) that are included with Vista, Win 7, and Win Server 2008, RDP now includes something called NLA. Existing clients under Linux don’t appear to support this type of authentication, except for one, called FreeRDP.

rdesktop/tsclient

rdesktop is a RDP client specifically for Linux. However it doesn’t appear to work with […] Continue reading

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[one-liner]: Gnome’s VNC Server, Vino, prompts for the Gnome Keyring Password on Ubuntu 10.04

Background

Another day with Ubuntu and another nebulous error 8-). I recently setup my 2nd permanent Ubuntu system, which would be used exclusively by my wife. I used 10.04 and the install went fine. During the install one of the dialogs asked if I wanted to login automatically.

Ubuntu install dialog: who are you

Given this was […] Continue reading

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[one-liner]: Getting Remote Desktop Sharing & Compiz to play nice under Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME

NOTE: This is an update to my original post on this problem when I 1st encountered it in Ubuntu 9.04.

Background

This one threw me for a bit but I finally realized that when I had Compiz enabled on an Ubuntu 10.04 system, I couldn’t use VNC to connect via Remote Desktop Sharing in GNOME (aka. Vino, […] Continue reading

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[one-liner]: Getting Remote Desktop Sharing & Compiz to play nice under Ubuntu 9.04 with GNOME

Background

This one threw me for a bit but I finally realized that when I had Compiz enabled on an Ubuntu 9.04 system, I couldn’t use VNC to connect via Remote Desktop Sharing in GNOME (aka. Vino, aka. VNC Server). Apparently this has been an issue going back since 2007 8-(, when Compiz is enabled. Since […] Continue reading

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