HowTo install rdesktop 1.5 including SeamLess Windows and much more...

[jbaloul]

HowTo install rdesktop 1.5 including SeamLess Windows and much more...
posted at: http://howtoforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=52

Hungry for "citrix" like capabilities with rdesktop...
Want to be able to run your windows application from your linux box in a seamless window...
Want rdesktop to copy/paste, mount your drives and run sound localy...
Well here it is...
Rdesktop 1.5.0-rc1 + Seamlessrdp is all that and more...

Here are some appetizer screenshots before we get going:
Ubuntu 6.06 Dapperr + XGL + Compiz + KDE + rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1 + seamlessrdp on windows 2003 tsv on VMware-Server
Screenshot 1: explorer-about
Screenshot 2: explorer-www
Screenshot 3: mspaint-notepad-calc
Screenshot 4: oulook-cal
Screenshot 5: outlook-file
Screenshot 6: outlook-help
Screenshot 7: outlook-msg
Screenshot 8: wmplayer-about.png
Screenshot 9: wmplayer-lib.png
Screenshot 10: wmplayer-www


Your gonna need the compiling tools, so if you don't already have them then:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

On your Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install rdesktop openssl libssl-dev libx11-dev
wget http://howtoforums.net/downloads/rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1.tar.bz2
tar -xjf rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1.tar.bz2
cd rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1
./configure
make
echo "backup rdesktop original";sudo cp -vp /usr/bin/rdesktop /usr/bin/rdesktop1.4BKUP
sudo mv /usr/bin/rdesktop /usr/bin/rdesktop1.4
sudo make install
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/rdesktop
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/rdesktop /usr/bin/rdesktop

Validate the install:

rdesktop 2>&1 | grep Version

You should see something like this:

Version 1.5.0-rc1. Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Matt Chapman.

On your Windows Terminal Server
download:
http://howtoforums.net/downloads/seamlessrdp.zip

Unpack the files to some directory on the server, such as c:\seamlessrdp.


Now on your Ubuntu connect with:

rdesktop -A -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe notepad" servername

I have tested this with the following applications as well:
Microsoft Outlook with disk mapping & sound (save your attchments localy & play sound for notification ):

rdesktop '-rdisk 'home'=/home/jacob' -rsound -A -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" servername

Internet Explorer:

rdesktop -A -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" servername

Windows Media Player with sound:

rdesktop -rsound -A -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe wmplayer" servername

Now if you wanna take it one step further...
You can download and install VMware-Server to run your windows instance in the backround...
you can reffer to this guide for that as well...
http://howtoforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=5
(it's on Breezy but can work with slight modification on Dapper too...I hope to update it asap)

--BIG thanks to the guys at http://www.rdesktop.org and http://www.cendio.com/seamlessrdp

rdesktop tested with Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper
seamlessrdp server tested with windows 2003


--
Jacob
Linux -- Breaking All Boundries
"you may say I am a dreamer, but i'm not the only one"
http://howtoforums.net

[notjohn101]

problem!

heres my output to all the commands

rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1/doc/keymap-names.txt
rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1/doc/ipv6.txt
rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1/doc/licensing.txt
rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1/doc/patches.txt
rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1/doc/redirection.txt
rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1/doc/rdesktop.1
boys@boys-desktop:~$ cd rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1
boys@boys-desktop:~/rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1$ ./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for X... no
checking for library containing socket... none required
checking for library containing inet_aton... none required
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking sys/select.h usability... yes
checking sys/select.h presence... yes
checking for sys/select.h... yes
checking sys/modem.h usability... no
checking sys/modem.h presence... no
checking for sys/modem.h... no
checking sys/filio.h usability... no
checking sys/filio.h presence... no
checking for sys/filio.h... no
checking sys/strtio.h usability... no
checking sys/strtio.h presence... no
checking for sys/strtio.h... no
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking langinfo.h usability... yes
checking langinfo.h presence... yes
checking for langinfo.h... yes
checking for strip... strip
checking for OpenSSL directory... Not found

Couldn't find your OpenSSL library installation dir
Use --with-openssl option to fix this problem

boys@boys-desktop:~/rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
boys@boys-desktop:~/rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1$ echo "backup rdesktop original";sudo cp -vp /usr/bin/rdesktop /usr/bin/rdesktop1.4BKUP
backup rdesktop original
cp: cannot stat `/usr/bin/rdesktop': No such file or directory
boys@boys-desktop:~/rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1$ sudo mv /usr/bin/rdesktop /usr/bin/rdesktop1.4
mv: cannot stat `/usr/bin/rdesktop': No such file or directory
boys@boys-desktop:~/rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1$ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
boys@boys-desktop:~/rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/rdesktop
chmod: cannot access `/usr/local/bin/rdesktop': No such file or directory
boys@boys-desktop:~/rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/rdesktop /usr/bin/rdesktop
boys@boys-desktop:~/rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1$ rdesktop 2>&1 | grep Version
boys@boys-desktop:~/rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1$ rdesktop -A -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe notepad" C:
bash: rdesktop: command not found
boys@boys-desktop:~/rdesktop-1.5.0-rc1$

[evs]

notjohn101:

Configure failed because it couldn't find OpenSSL. Therefore, make and make install failed as well and nothing was installed. Try

sudo apt-get install openssl

Then start all the steps over again.

I haven't tried installing this yet, but I hope to this weekend. This looks great.

[notjohn101]

nope...that dosent work...althought i would think it should

[oo_void]

Try "sudo apt-get install libssl-dev".

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oo_void

[notjohn101]

ok that worked but now i got

boys@boys-desktop:~$ rdesktop -A -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe wmplayer" C:/home/boys/seamlessrdp
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
ERROR: C: unable to resolve host

[evs]

You need to specify a Windows server name at the end of the command. it should look something like

rdesktop -A -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe wmplayer" servername

where "C:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe" is the location of the seamless rdp executable on the Windows machine and servername is the name of the Windows machine.

[potrick]

Do you have to be using Windows 2003 Server? Could I concievably use this to connect to any computer on my network running 2000 or XP? Just wondering.

[evs]

Do you have to be using Windows 2003 Server? Could I concievably use this to connect to any computer on my network running 2000 or XP? Just wondering.

Definitely not Windows 2000, because you need Terminal Services installed (aka Remote Desktop) which only comes on XP Pro or 2000/2003 Server, so 2000 Server might work. I tried this with XP Pro and it didn't work, but I have a modified dll to allow concurrent sessions, so I'm gonna play around with it some more. I have gotten it working with 2003 Server.

[potrick]

Okay. I just remembered I have a licsense of XP Pro, so I'll try it out too and let you know how it works.