Thursday, August 27, 2009

Rdesktop woes: Connecting from Linux to Windows Vista

I use rdesktop on Ubuntu to connect to Windows Vista on univ lan. Some time after I connect, the connection hangs. A little search on Ubuntu forums revealed that setting Control Panel > Mouse > styles to (none) can reduce/eliminate the hanging. Even now the connection intermittently freezes, but the frequency is much lesser and the duration of freeze is lesser too.

I also installed "GRDC" Gnome RDC client, which works quite well (as well as windows rdesktop client).

Still in lookout for a better solution to connect to Vista, without the freezes.

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