USB through RDP

For some reason, you may need access to external USB drive for copying some files or folders to remote server which you don’t have physically access to it.

For a temporary USB access, you can try USB through Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol(RDP).

First connect an external USB to your computer which show as Drive H: as example below.

External USB drive

Run Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection(RDP) connect to remote Windows server, click ‘Local Resources‘ -> click ‘More‘ -> check  ‘Drive H:’ -> click ‘connect’.

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How to customize Terminal Server Client(tsclient) specified screen size?

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. The rdesktop supported servers include Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows NT Server 4.0.

The rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window System, and other ports should be fairly straightforward.

I have an Ubuntu Hardy x64 running on my Dell desktop and another Dell laptop running Windows XP Professional with screen resolution 1152 x 1024.

How to launch rdesktop on Ubuntu Hardy?
Click Applications -> click Internet -> click Terminal Server Client(tsclient).

Enter computer name or IP address, select RDP protocol, enter username & password, and click open. Basically you should be able to connect to your remote desktop computer or server.

If you click on Display, and click use specified screen size, then you should be able to see default Specified Screen Size as below:
640 x 480
800 x 600
1024 x 768
1152 x 864
1280 x 960
1400 x 1250

What happen if I need to have different screen size? Don’t worry! You can use a command line
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OpenSUSE 10.2 x86-64

We got a new toy – OpenSUSE 10.2 x86-64 bit recently. OpenSUSE was released last month. OpenSUSE 10.2 can be downloaded as a DVD or as a set of 5 CDs for x86, x86-64 and PPC architectures. There are also two additional CDs that you can download, one that contains language packs and the other one for non-open-source software.

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