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X11rdp-o-Matic v3.0Beta1 Available for testing

Finally, after months of personal life hacking, I get to update the utilities!

Important features at-a-glance: Now creates packages! After compiling on one machine you can bundle the packages up and install on another system of the same arch (e.g. amd64, i686) No longer uses old source code! Uses the shiny, up to date

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X11rdp-o-Matic git repository now available

I have created a git repository for X11rdp-o-matic on Github at https://github.com/scarygliders/X11RDP-o-Matic

Read-only access is via : git://github.com/scarygliders/X11RDP-o-Matic.git

As it stands there is only the master branch which is based on Version 2.5

I am now beginning work on V3.0, which hopefully will start using the latest git versions of X11rdp and

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X11RDP-o-Matic and RDPsesconfig : Updated to Version 2.5

Screenshot from 2012-06-20 10:01:10

It’s here! It’s improved! It works even better!

I call this the “ssta release”, in honour of a pal of mine who made a request which I’ve now implemented. ( –justdoit option, see below).

I have sweated and toiled, lost sleep, learned a lot, re-learned a lot, tested, tested again, and ended up with something

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A brief guide to PolicyKit

Like the title suggests, this will be relatively brief – mostly because Policykit isn't as difficult to understand as I originally led myself to believe.

It all sprang from starting to write about how to get X11rdp/xrdp up and running on your Linux systems. Sure, getting the desktop up remotely in a fast efficient way

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xrdp authentication with Active Directory

Logged in AD user showing linux id data

A couple of readers asked how they could get xrdp to authenticate with Active Directory.

Here's how…  ;)

Prerequisites I assume your xrdp server already has either the Likewise/Likewise-Open or as it's now known by,  PowerBroker Identity Services I assume that your xrdp server

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The Scarygliders X11rdp-O-Matic and RDPsesconfig : v1.1 released, V2 now available

Choosing more than one user

 

Note : Version 1 & 1.1 are now deprecated in favour of v2 which contains some fixes and additional changes. v2 is out now and is a vast improvment over v1.x

Article first published on May 23, 2012 @ 8:17

UPDATE : June 17, 2012

Changelog :

Added important note about

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