Sunday, June 17, 2007

Seamless RDP to XP inside Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Seamless RDP (Remote Desktop) is easy. Just install seamlessrdp at the XP Guest OS and then connect to XP VMware using by script (i.e. visio).

Below is an example to open visio application by typing "visio". Create "visio" script file in ~/bin :

Visio
#!/bin/bash
rdesktop -A -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\visio11\visio.exe" thartono-wxp:3389 -u thartono -p MYPASSWORD

Other window could be opened as well (i.e. PowerPoint, WinWord, etc.) by similar command, just modify the above script.

Below is a screen capture displaying Microsoft Visio, Office and Internet Explorer. You could resize the window, make it full screen, or copy and paste between application.

1 comment:

FebZ said...

If we load an apps using seamless RDP, after closing the apps, we have to manually logoff the session. To avoid that, we can just load the batch file instead of the original apps, and put the logoff command inside the batch file.
Example :

@echo off

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Visio11\visio.exe" & shutdown -l

The original apps is Visio, and the command to log off the xp session is 'shutdown -l'

Some time we still see a DOS prompt appears to handle this batch file loading. I dont know how to avoid that. I have an idea of using .PIF file in xp (to make it minimized), but I have not tried it yet.

Febru