CentOS - Nov 2009 - OT: Using rdesktop as terminal client to Windows 2008 R2

Hi all,

  I am using rdesktop as a terminal client to connect to Windows Terminal Server
over years without problems until now. I have a problems with five Windows 2008
R2
servers: point cursor turns black when I connect to them. But this problem 
disappears if I turn on windows 7 theme on these servers, but performance it is
very
very bad.

  This problem only appears with windows 2008 R2 and not on Windows 2008 SP2 or 
Windows 2003 R2 servers.

  I have tried to add: Option "SWcursor" "true" (nvidia
graphics card using native
nvidia drivers), on my xorg.conf without luck.

  My laptop is centOS 5.4 fully updated with rdesktop-1.6.0-3.

  Any ideas??

  Thanks.
-- 
CL Martinez
carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

carlopmart wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I am using rdesktop as a terminal client to connect to Windows Terminal
Server
> over years without problems until now. I have a problems with five Windows
2008 R2
> servers: point cursor turns black when I connect to them. But this problem 
> disappears if I turn on windows 7 theme on these servers, but performance
it is very
> very bad.
> 
>   This problem only appears with windows 2008 R2 and not on Windows 2008
SP2 or
> Windows 2003 R2 servers.
> 
>   I have tried to add: Option "SWcursor" "true" (nvidia
graphics card using native
> nvidia drivers), on my xorg.conf without luck.
> 
>   My laptop is centOS 5.4 fully updated with rdesktop-1.6.0-3.
> 
>   Any ideas??
> 
>   Thanks.
Hi

I had the same problem and seems to be the version of rdesktop. I solved 
  compiling the new version (1.6).

Regards

mg.

Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
> carlopmart wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   I am using rdesktop as a terminal client to connect to Windows
Terminal Server
>> over years without problems until now. I have a problems with five
Windows 2008 R2
>> servers: point cursor turns black when I connect to them. But this
problem
>> disappears if I turn on windows 7 theme on these servers, but
performance it is very
>> very bad.
>>
>>   This problem only appears with windows 2008 R2 and not on Windows
2008 SP2 or
>> Windows 2003 R2 servers.
>>
>>   I have tried to add: Option "SWcursor" "true"
(nvidia graphics card using native
>> nvidia drivers), on my xorg.conf without luck.
>>
>>   My laptop is centOS 5.4 fully updated with rdesktop-1.6.0-3.
>>
>>   Any ideas??
>>
>>   Thanks.
> Hi
> 
> I had the same problem and seems to be the version of rdesktop. I solved 
>   compiling the new version (1.6).
> 
> Regards
> 
> mg.
But I am using 1.6 version ...


-- 
CL Martinez
carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com