KDE rlogin -> WinXP desktop looking so ugly and some prob

[Master One]

I just installed rlogin and tried the KDE gui for it, to establish a remote connection to my WinXP workstation.

The first problem I encountered: I can not search the network with the shown search function. It simply does not do anything, and I can't push the rescan button, as it is grayed out. As I understand, there should be a service installed for using this network search function, but I don't know anything about this (there was no use flag for rlogin, when installing, and nothing new showed up using "rc-update -s"). What am I missing here ???

When pushing the help button, the KDE help system comes up, but there seem to be some pages missing (I'm using the German translation, and the pages about using remote desktop and window size / full screen mode are not selectable). Also the command for connecting to a Win machine is explained wrong, but this was easy to figure out.

When selecting the keyboard layout in the preferences, this setting is not stored, and always returns to us-en.

Then I finally established the connection to my WinXP machine. The first thing I encountered, it's starting in full-screen-mode, and when trying to enter the password for my user account, nothing happens (as if the keyboard would be dead). Only after I changed from full-screen-mode to window mode, I could enter the password (what a strange problem).

Are these bugs, or is it just my installation?

When the screen came up, it looked really ugly. Background pic and sounds are not transmitted, and it seems it only has 8 bit colors.

In the WinXP remote desktop utility, not only the connection speed can be selected, but also sound and printers enabled and color-depth selected, but this all is not possible in the rlogin program. Why is there no way to configure this in rlogin?

So this way, technically I can connect from my Gentoo workstation to my WinXP workstation, but it is not satisfacting at all.

Is there no other way to connect to a WinXP machine ??? Any other utility which is more like the WinXP remote desktop program ???
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[Master One]

Noone else out there, trying to connect to a WinXP machine from a Linux workstation?

I'd like to find a suitable solution for that, but having to stick with this ugly rlogin can't be the only possible way, can it?
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[Dgege]

Forget about the KDE RDP client.
"emerge -a rdesktop" and use the command line.
rdesktop --help should bring you the different switches and one of them ltes you choose your depth (use 16).
It work much better + you can make it auto login by providing the password in the command line. Very handy to create a script that connects automatically.
Hope that helps.

Georges.

[Master One]

[Gwyn]

Hi Master One,

Dgege is right: rdesktop from the command line is much better. The reason is that you have access to a lot more arguments, such as colour depth and screen size. Open Konsole and type in (as a user, not root):

[Master One]

Looks like I'll have to give rdesktop a try again, thanx a lot for this info.
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[millhouse]

Hey, I use grdesktop and I love it. It's graphical, works fast, has a lot of options.... Just remember, when you connect to your XP machine the key combo to get out of fullscreen mode (so you can access the linux workstation again) is Ctrl+Enter

Good luck!

[Adamal]

[Kurse]

tsclient is a very nice graphical interface to rdesktop. It allows you to customize your connection however you wish.

[Master One]

Hey, finally some more input. grdesktop looks nice, and I will also take a look at tsclient, thanx guys.
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