Bug 89685

Summary: Ability to set hostname for rdp protocol
Product: [Applications] krdc Reporter: Nick Hibma <nick>
Component: generalAssignee: Jaison Lee <lee.jaison>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: FreeBSD Ports   
OS: FreeBSD   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Nick Hibma 2004-09-17 11:54:24 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
Installed from:    FreeBSD Ports
OS:                FreeBSD

With rdesktop you can set the hostname of the client reported to a
Windows Terminal Services Server. This is convenient as this enables a
FreeBSD install on the same machine as a Windows install to connect as
well to the Terminal server.

Example: rdesktop -n hester5 eddie

Details:

On the Windows server: you acquire a temporary license that expires after
3 months at which you up the digit in the hostname. This is of course a 
work-around to the whole licensing thing on the server. Then again, we do
have 10 valid licenses, but somehow Windows Terminal Server refuses to
use them for the rdesktop connections, so I think it is useful as
well in the case where you do have the licenses.
Comment 1 Brad Hards 2005-12-03 09:40:16 UTC 
The code to do this is pretty simple (just add another lineedit and pass it down in krdpview.cpp:start()), however this would break the string freeze (to add the label for the lineedit). So unfortunately it has to wait for KDE 4.
Comment 2 Brad Hards 2005-12-14 11:17:45 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103934 ***