Re: [X2Go-User] Two new features in X2Go Client

On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 12:23 +0200, Oleksandr Shneyder wrote:

Hallo list,

I'm very glad to introduce two new features in X2Go Client.

1. Direct RDP connection to Windows Terminal Server. This feature was sponsored from Mirco Rohloff from "Rohloff AG" - http://www.rohloff.de With this feature you can open direct RDP connection using installed on the client system RDP client program without X2Go proxy. It could be useful in mixed environments with both Linux and Windows TS. This feature is only available for Linux client. To use it, choose Session type "Connect to Windows terminal server" in Session preferences. You should also check "Direct RDP Connection". After that you can configure additional setting in tab "Settings". In this tab you can choose display resolution, RDP client to use and also specify additional command line parameters. I suggest to use direct RDP connections only over LAN or VPN connections. Over Internet using X2Go proxy is faster and securer. You can install X2Go Client-3.99.3.0 which contain this feature from our repository "heuler" <snip> I'm delighted to see the changes; thank you very much. I was also intrigued with Mike's additions of sound and local shares.

While WAN performance using X2Go proxy may have been faster with RDP5 as found in rdesktop for Linux and the XP Windows RDS client, we have found that RDP6/7 performance is much faster than X2Go proxy. This is available in xfreerdp for Linux and the freely downloadable TSPlus RDP6/7 client for Windows including Windows XP (www.tsplus.net). Thanks again - John