Remmina

[Patton Echols]

When I remote connect to my office (WinXP), I have been using a script 
that connects using rdesktop over ssh tunnel.  It works, but there are 
some papercut issues I have not been able to resolve.  Now that my 
laptop is upgraded to 12.04, I wanted to try out remmina and see if I 
like it.

The XP desktop is expecting an ssh connection with a stored public key.  
I don't want to change that end.  but I am having trouble figuring out 
what to put where in the remmina gui.  I'd appreciate any guidance.  The 
script below.

#! /bin/bash

# ssh compress, redirect /dev/null, no remote console <host> <redirect> &=background

ssh -CnN -p 12345 patton at my.domain.com -L 3390:localhost:3389 &

#capture PID of ssh

PID=$!

#give a few seconds for the process to be set up

sleep 7

#start remote desktop

rdesktop -fzE -a 16 localhost:3390

# kill the ssh process after remote disconnects

echo "killing $PID"

kill $PID

echo "done, see you next time"




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PE