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- | ===== X2Go TCE and MS Terminal Servers ===== | ||
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- | X2Go Client can be used to connect to Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers. There are two modes available: X2Go-proxied RDP support and DirectRDP support. | ||
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- | ==== X2Go-proxied RDP Sessions ===== | ||
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- | === What is X2Go-proxying === | ||
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- | With X2Go you can launch any application hosted on a Linux-based X2Go Server. These applications can run inside a full desktop session launched on a remote X2Go Server or these applications can run independently and seamlessly integrate into your local desktop session (e.g. see the [[wiki: | ||
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- | An RDP session is a remote session on an MS Windows machine. With an RDP client application like the '' | ||
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- | An X2Go-proxied RDP session now is an RDP session that gets launched inside an X2Go session. | ||
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- | === How it works in detail === | ||
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- | If X2Go Client is used for proxying an RDP session, the session start up goes like this: | ||
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- | * an X2Go Client machine connects to an X2Go Server | ||
- | * On this X2Go Server the '' | ||
- | * From this X2Go Server the MS Windows machine (Terminal Server or Workstation) can be reached (maybe on some internal network) | ||
- | * X2Go Client launches an X2Go Session and calls the '' | ||
- | * The '' | ||
- | * The RDP client' | ||
- | * Whatever appears in the X2Go Session gets displayed on the X2Go Client machine | ||
- | * the X2Go Client can now work on an MS Windows machine | ||
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- | === Benefits of X2Go-proxied RDP Sessions === | ||
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- | There are some benefits gained from this approach compared to direct RDP session setups. | ||
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- | * Traffic between server/ | ||
- | * On low bandwidth lines, an X2Go-proxied RDP Session might scale better than the native RDP protocol | ||
- | * The proxying X2Go Server can be used as a firewall pass-through gateway and you can connect to machines behind that firewall | ||
- | * All SSH-related extra authentication features (SSH pubkey/ | ||
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- | === Session Setup for X2Go-proxied RDP Sessions === | ||
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- | In X2Go Client' | ||
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- | * profile name: a descriptive name for that session profile | ||
- | * hostname: the hostname of the RDP-proxying X2Go Server | ||
- | * username: username on the RDP-proxying X2Go Server | ||
- | * SSH authentication features: if appropriate, | ||
- | * Session Type: //Connect to Windows terminal server// | ||
- | * Session options: Server: IP address or hostname of the MS Windows machine. (The hostname most be resolvable on the X2Go Server machine!) | ||
- | * Advanced options...: '' | ||
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- | ==== Direct/ | ||
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- | Especially for X2Go Client running on the X2Go TCE, we added a feature to X2Go Client that we call // | ||
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- | This can be very handy on X2Go Thin Client Environment machines. For Linux-based businesses, in most cases it cannot be avoided having a few MS Windows machines on site. If your company' | ||
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- | Session profiles with DirectRDP support can also be deployed via the X2Go Session Broker. So most features of the X2Go Session Broker can be combined with X2Go Client' | ||
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- | * profile name: a descriptive name for that session profile | ||
- | * hostname: the hostname of the RDP server (i.e. the MS Windows machine) | ||
- | * username: username on the RDP server | ||
- | * Session Type: //Connect to Windows terminal server// | ||
- | * Tick a mark on //[x] Direct RDP Connection// | ||
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- | Direct RDP sessions should then be fine-tuned under the Settings tab. | ||
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- | === RDP client backends === | ||
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- | X2Go Client allows to select what RDP client backend should be used. You can either choose '' | ||
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- | The '' | ||
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- | The FreeRDP project develops the '' | ||
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- | The fine-tuning of RDP client specific features is done via specifying extra command line options of the respective RDP client. See //man rdesktop// or //man xfreerdp// on the machine that you want to use X2Go Client on. | ||
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- | === Fine-tuning DirectRDP Sessions (xfreerdp) === | ||
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- | Some command line options are derived from the X2Go Client session profile settings (hostname, username, geometry, etc.). | ||
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- | Extra command line options for '' | ||
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- | === Fine-tuning DirectRDP Sessions (xfreerdp) === | ||
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- | Some command line options are derived from the X2Go Client session profile settings (hostname, username, geometry, etc.). | ||
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- | Extra command line options for '' | ||
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- | ==== Credits ==== | ||
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- | X2Go Client' | ||