Re: Thinstation possibilities + usage scenario

here is a (probably poorly written :) script that i wrote to ask users
for their credentials and then startup freerdp (btw, i have found
freerdp FAR, FAR, FAR superior to rdesktop). it obviously does not do
the WOL or computer lookup for you, but its a start. it takes xfreerdp
options and server as input respectively.



#!/bin/bash
Xdialog --title "CCH Terminal Server" --left --icon=/lib/cch_freerdp/cch.xpm \
--password=2 --ok-label=Connect --3inputsbox "CCH Terminal Server" \
330x350 Username: ""  Password: "" Domain: "CCH" 2> /tmp/tmp.1
ret=$?
input=`cat /tmp/tmp.1`
rm -f /tmp/tmp.1
case $ret in
0)
       Xdialog --title "Connecting" --icon=/lib/cch_freerdp/cch.xpm
--timeout 10 --msgbox "Connecting to CCH Terminal Server Farm\nPlease
wait..." 400x150 &
       user=`echo "$input" | awk '{split($0,a,"/")}END{print a[1]}'`
       pass=`echo "$input" | awk '{split($0,a,"/")}END{print a[2]}'`
       xfreerdp -u "$user" -p "$pass" $1 $2
       ret1=$?
       echo "\n\nret=$ret1\n\n"
       case $ret1 in
       0)
               break;;
       131)
               kill `pidof Xdialog`
               Xdialog --title "Wrong Username or Password"
--icon=/lib/cch_freerdp/cch.xpm --msgbox "Wrong Username or
Password\n\nRemember: Do NOT put\n\"CCH\\\"\nin front of your
username." 400x150 & ;;
       *)
               kill `pidof Xdialog`
               Xdialog --title "Unknown Error"
--icon=/lib/cch_freerdp/cch.xpm --msgbox "Unknown error. Contact
Support.\n\nError Code=$ret1\n" 400x150 & ;;
       esac

       echo "user=$user" > /tmp/t
       echo "1=$1" >> /tmp/t
       echo "2=$2" >> /tmp/t

esac







chris

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Ed Heron <Ed@...> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 07:07 -0700, c-l wrote:
>> ...
>> My final goal for this product is to enable users to easily log on to their
>> workstation from any of those Thinstation PC's that will be in different
>> areas (board rooms, etc...).  I work under the assumption that users are
>> "dumb" and will not know by heart their Computer Name, nor their IP address,
>> nor they will always remember to leave their station turned on all the time.
>> ...
>
>  It might be possible with a custom module to prompt for user name and
> password, check a look up table for machine name and mac address, check
> if machine is up, sending a WOL packet as needed and waiting for the
> machine to be accessible, then build a rdesktop command line with
> machine name, user name and password.
>
>  That'd be a decent amount of work, though, and you'd have to maintain
> that user name / machine name / MAC address data. Or, if you had a
> server piece that ran on a nearby router or server, that could serve MAC
> addresses from an ARP cache.
>
>  You might want to start by verifying WOL works on your workstations.
>
>  Would your workstations have static IP's or would you use some sort of
> dynamic DNS scheme?
>
>  Theoretically, it could be expanded to start VMs (Virtual Machines),
> as well.  I wonder if it would be possible and/or desirable to have MS
> Windows VMs shutdown after a configurable amount of inactivity...
>
>  Wish I had time to play with it beyond idle speculation...
>
>
>
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