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Bug 503456 - Support for RDP protocol
Support for RDP protocol
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: vinagre
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Jonh Wendell
vinagre-maint
: 514888 582024 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-12-13 17:00 UTC by Dennis Krul (dweazle)
Modified: 2010-06-27 15:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Dennis Krul (dweazle) 2007-12-13 17:00:55 UTC 
RDP is the remote desktop protocol used by Windows. System administrators who use a Linux desktop often have to manage Windows systems as well. 

rdesktop is an RDP client for Linux, but it is CLI only. 
Tsclient is a GTK frontend for rdesktop, which has it's flaws and doesn't support multiple sessions.
Krdc is a Qt frontend for KDE and doesn't integrate with GNOME.

It would be nice if vinagre would have support for the RDP protocol, either as a frontend (like tsclient and krdc) or (even better) with native support by integrating or linking to the rdesktop code. I am not a developer, so I don't know if that is possible at all, it's just a though :)
Comment 1 Jonh Wendell 2008-02-07 00:53:22 UTC 
*** Bug 514888 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Pascal de Bruijn 2008-03-09 15:54:06 UTC 
Please note that it's not always viable to install VNC on a complete Windows server farm. Either because of the effort involved, or because of company policy.

Integrating rdesktop into vinagre would be a killer feature!
Comment 3 chuchiperriman 2008-03-11 12:13:34 UTC 
I agree with this !!!!
Comment 4 Chris 2008-04-09 17:40:59 UTC 
This would greatly increase the utility of this software...
Comment 5 Marc 2008-05-13 03:13:03 UTC 
I totally agree. Adding the possibility to manage servers through the RDP protocol would greatly enhance Vinagre's usability. Vinagre would then become my main portal for managing my servers. At the moment I have a couple of VNC servers that I manage, but the majority (of Windows servers) does not have VNC installed, for a number of various reasons. With the possibility to have RDP integrated into Vinagre, I would be able to manage my entire server farm through Vinagre. I would be happy to beta test!
Comment 6 kimus.linuxus 2008-09-29 16:51:40 UTC 
Was great if vinagre implemented a plugin based protocol feature. Then RDP was a mater of implementing a new plugin that would use the rdesktop client.
Comment 7 Jonh Wendell 2009-05-12 14:49:12 UTC 
*** Bug 582024 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Robert Ancell 2010-03-06 00:46:23 UTC 
Information about RDP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol

Open source implementation of RDP:
http://www.rdesktop.org/
Comment 9 Jonh Wendell 2010-06-12 14:22:28 UTC 
I'm working on it based on rdesktop binary. I'll ship it in 3.0 and, if we have man power, we'll replace it with a proper solution (based on some lib) for 3.2.
Comment 10 Jonh Wendell 2010-06-27 15:05:05 UTC 
Pushed initial work. Still some work to be done, mainly in the Connection UI. I'll talk to some designers about this.