Gnome-rdp (re-post)

Mon Jul 2 14:24:57 UTC 2012

On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 22:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/02/2012 09:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > Good luck....
> 
> Oh, one more thing.....
> 
> I am sure this is not impressive.....  But, I'm located in Taiwan.  I have a vpn
> account which places my system in Los Angles, CA.
> 

You're right, that's not impressive. I'm based in Denver. I connect via
vpn to systems in Bangalore, India (literally halfway around the globe
from me) for work all the time. Distance and country doesn't impress me
all that much, especially with connectivity available in today's
networks. I also regularly travel those kinds of distances in my
professional role.

> I connected to the VPN using OpenVPN and NetworkManager (I've not had any problems
> with it) and the following tunnel was created.
> 
> tun0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
>           inet addr:10.94.100.74  P-t-P:10.94.100.74  Mask:255.255.255.0
> 
> I enabled port forwarding on my router to transfer port 3389 to the internal Win2008
> server.
> 
> I then used Remmina to create a connection to that system which goes from
> Taiwan--->USA--->Taiwan.
> 
> And I have now been connect for 15+ minutes.

First, OpenVPN is different from vpnc. The only thing they have in
common is that they are both essentially plugins for Network Manager. I
wrote that there's an issue with vpnc.

> Oh, just to clarify, I said you had 2 issues.  DNS and RDP....I never suggested they
> were linked.  Sorry if you misunderstood me.

...Except that your diagnosis was wrong from the start, and I didn't
misunderstand you there. I wrote repeatedly that there was not a DNS
issue here and was supplying relevant information to show it. I think it
was you who misunderstood me. I mentioned I had two issues, but they are
Network Manager / vpnc and RDP. I never wrote that I had an issue with
DNS. You must have me confused with someone else (Lawrence, perhaps?)...

Glad rdp works for you. It doesn't on multiple systems over here,
running both F16 and F17, with default configurations. I suppose that
means you won't have anything to contribute to the BZ beyond "It works
on my system", which is number 2 on the 10 most common things developers
say when their software doesn't work. Number 1, but the way, is, "That's
weird..."

Chris