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Samuel Denbigh Leslie | 7 Feb 2013 19:24
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Connecting with loadbalanceinfo (TsvUrl)

Hi all,

At work we have a VDI deployment consisting of a pool of Windows VMs 
which are allocated to users on first access. The actual connection 
process is handled in part by an RDS session broker, however, in 
contrast to a more typical session broker configuration where the 
connection is made to a given FQDN it seems VDI deployments have a 
somewhat unique configuration directive which the MS RDC client 
interprets. The particular directive is "loadbalanceinfo" and is in the 
form of (taken from a sample RDP configuration file):
loadbalanceinfo:s:tsv://VMResource.1.CollectionNameHere

It seems FreeRDP is not currently compatible with this configuration? I 
compiled the latest source from Git (master branch) but despite the 
impressive changes to the comand line syntax couldn't find any relevant 
option. Taking a look at the source does shows significant code to 
handle various forms of redirection but seemingly not this particular 
form. I did find some interesting references to a tsvUrl in 
libfreerdp/core/redirection.c but no parameter to actually set it. Can 
anyone comment on the likelihood of supporting this capability?

Thanks for all your hard work supporting RDP on Linux!

-SDL

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Entwicklung - ECOS Technology | 6 Feb 2013 12:32
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FreeRDP vs. Word.

Dear list,

 

we yesterday ran into the same problem as described here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/freerdp-devel <at> lists.sourceforge.net/msg01962.html

 

As the OP documented, root cause of this unwanted behaviour is the unimplemented MajorFunction 0x11 or 

IRP_MJ_LOCK_CONTROL. My temporary fix was to silently ignore these requests, which seems to satisfy MS word.

 

My suggestion is to add a command line option which enables this behaviour if wanted. Any comments? Maybe it
would be more desireable to implement locking, but I do not understand windows file locking enough to know
how it maps to flock()

 

 
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olav | 1 Feb 2013 11:59
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how to log out gracefully from remote-app?

Hi,

At work we have a windows server "remote programs farm" on which one can
run windows programs in seamless mode on one's own desktop. Using
xfreerdp 1.0.2 with a command-line like this I can run MS-WORD
seamlessly on my linux desktop:

xfreerdp -d <domain> --plugin cliprdr --plugin rdpdr --data
disk:MyPCDocuments:"//home/≤myuser>"  -- -u <myuser> -p <mypassw>  --app
--plugin rail --data "||WINWORD" -- <remoteprograms.job.no>

But when I close winword by using its exit-menu, I have not been logged
out from the server, I have to wait for some timeout on the server, in
this case approx 20 minutes, before I can do this again. If I try to do
this again before the timeout, I get an empty, black window.

Is there a way to gracefully log out from this session, so that I do not
have to wait for the server to time it out?

Olav

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chris nelson | 29 Jan 2013 21:58
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printer redirection

hello,

i am trying to setup some thin clients running thinstation with
printer redirection in
freerdp. i am trying to redirect a network printer. i am using thinstation 5.1
and freerdp 1.0.1. as far as i can understand, freerdp needs cups to
support printer redirection. i have created a thinstation image with cups.
the cups package appears to beworking, i can create network printers
and successfully print to them
via thinstation. however, redirecting in a freerdp session is not working. i am
using
xfreerdp -d domain -u user -p password --ignore-certificate --plugin
rdpdr --data printer:test -- termserver
i connect to term server, see
registered device #1: PRN1 (type=4, id=1)
in the console, but no redirected printers created on term server.
nothing shows up in event log. the ms imagesetter driver is installed.
all the relevant client redirection settings
on terminal server are correctly set.

thanks,
chris

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Bernhard Miklautz | 29 Jan 2013 15:36
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Android FreeRDP client released

Hi all,

Thinstuff is proud to announce that aFreeRDP, the FreeRDP Android
client, is now available in git master.

The initial announcement was made too early, and we have run behind
schedule. We apologize for the inconvenience and for the lack of status
update on our side. However, we believe that this release was well worth
the wait, and that you will be impressed with it.

aFreeRDP is already quite mature and comes with a lot of nice features:
- Built-in help for touch pointer and gestures
- A touch pointer for easier user input within a session
- Gestures for common input tasks like scrolling, zooming, etc.
- Custom keyboard views for advanced user input (i.e. common shortcuts
  like Win+E)
- A flexible connection management UI allowing to quickly connect to a
  host as well as handling a large list with multiple predefined
  connections

The build integrates seamlessly into FreeRDPs build system - you just
have to install the Android NDK/SDK and ant. For detailed instructions
on how to build aFreeRDP refer to docs/README.android.

Thinstuff strongly believes in FreeRDP and we think that aFreeRDP is a
perfect addition to the available clients. We hope you like it :).

Best regards,

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Lk Rashinkar | 21 Jan 2013 01:29
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drive redirection

Hi,

I'm trying to test drive redirection on FreeRDP-1.0.1. I want to redirect
/home/lk/projects on my Linux client and see it as drive M on my Windows 7
system. Here is what I get:

./xfreerdp --sec rdp --plugin rdpdr --data disk:m:/home/lk/projects -- -u
lk -p pass 192.168.2.184
loading plugin rdpdr
connected to 192.168.2.184:3389
registered device #1: m (type=8 id=1)

But I don't see the drive/files on the server.

I also tried this on the latest FreeRDP but could not figure out the exact
cmd line args to use

But my primary interest is to get it working with FreeRDP-1.0.1

TIA
LK
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Matt Moore | 16 Jan 2013 15:18
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Could I get in contact with the dev working on the iOS port?

I'd like to see how he or she is converting the dynamic libs to static to
work on iOS.

Thanks in advance,

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Marc-André Moreau | 16 Jan 2013 00:27
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Thin Client Point of Sale Systems

Hi,

I am interested in learning from people who have experience or knowledge
related to the usage of thin clients in point of sale systems. I have
rather limited knowledge about the common devices used, the software that
goes with it, etc. I became interested in these systems because they are
probably where serial & parallel port redirection is the most useful
nowadays. I've ordered a bunch of hardware to test serial & parallel port
redirection and I'm running into a lot of issues, so I still couldn't get a
proper test setup at this point. For instance, I bought a barcode scanner
that is supposed to do serial over USB emulation, but it gets picked up as
a simple input device and I couldn't get the "real" serial emulation to
work. It works fine as an input device, but it defeats the purpose if I
want to redirect it as a serial device. I also bought an Epson TM-T88iii
thermal printer which has a parallel port on the back. I could never get it
to work with db25 to db25, and after searching online, I apparently need to
do db25 to db9. I've ordered the proper cable, but in the meantime I still
can't test serial and it also means I won't get a proper device for testing
parallel port redirection.

I'm making a lot of newbie mistakes trying to get a test environment up and
I'd like some advice from someone who has experience with this. I've looked
at point of sale systems in stores for the past month, the only one which I
know for sure was a thin client was a wyse-based system, and it definitely
has multiple serial connections to the receipt printer and other devices.
Aside from knowing which hardware to go for, I'd need some hints on what
software is commonly used. From what I understood, a lot of PoS software is
written in Java, and IBM's AS400 is still commonly used. I know from the
bug reports that some people have been using the AS400 emulator (there's an
issue with the keyboard type), and I'd like to setup a test environment
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arvid norr | 11 Jan 2013 22:04
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FreeRDP API suggestion

In the rdpSettings structure many settings can be configured.  Some of
the parameters are used by the freeRDP libaries but some are only used
internally by the client software.
This is very hard to understand and also complicates the API to freeRDP.
I suggest that all settings that are only used by the client and are
not used by the libraries are moved into a sub data structure.

Examples are the PerformanceFlags variable that is used by freeRDP
libraries. DisableThemes and DisableWallpaper are only used by the
client. When using the API you don’t understand if you must both set
the PerformanceFlags and also set for example DisableThemes.

Regards
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Lk Rashinkar | 11 Jan 2013 20:54
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USB redirection

Hi,

I'm trying FreeRDP with USB redirection on a LinuxMint 13 64bit system. The
USB device that I'm trying to redirect is a Creative webcam.

I built FreeRDP using the option -DCHANNEL_URBDRC_CLIENT=ON

I connect to a Windows 7 Pro server:

sudo ./xfreerdp /u:lk /dvc:urbdrc,id,dev:041e:4063 /v:192.168.2.102
loading channel drdynvc
connected to 192.168.2.102:3389
Password:
Loading Dynamic Virtual Channel urbdrc
VID: 0x041E PID: 0x4063
Regist Device: Vid: 0x041E Pid: 0x4063 InterfaceClass = 0xE

I see from posts that others are able to redirect their webcams (but unable
to use it).

When I look in Device Manager, I don't see the webcam.

Any clues as to what I'm doing wrong?

TIA
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John Eke | 9 Jan 2013 21:16
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Number Pad not working in 1.0.2

Hello,

I just downloaded and compiled FreeRDP 1.0.2 using the following options

cmake . -DWITH_FFMPEG=OFF

Then I ran xfreerdp using the following command:

./xfreerdp --no-nla 192.168.217.234

I try typing in notepad everything works except any keys on the number pad.
Any ideas? Is this a known bug? Or am I missing something?

I'm running on Ubuntu Linux 10.04

Linux johne-desktop 2.6.32-45-generic #101-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 3 15:39:38
UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks!

- John E
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