University of California at Berkeley
           Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
                          Instructional Support Group

/share/b/pub/microsoft-rdc.help
								Mar 13 2014

CONTENTS:
	Logons to Windows Remote Desktop Servers
	Bug in UNIX 'rdesktop' Full-Screen mode
	Software that Works on Remote Desktop Servers
	Software that Does Not Work on Remote Desktop Servers


For general information about the Microsoft computers for EECS Instruction,
please see /share/b/pub/microsoft.help.


Logons to Windows Remote Desktop Servers
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  You can logon to your Instructional Windows account from other computers
  using the Terminal Services/Remote Desktop Connection utility.   You need 
  the Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Connection client program on your 
  computer to do this.   It is included in newer versions of Windows.  

  On the EECS Instuctional systems, you can find the RDC client at:

  Windows:	C:\WINNT\system32\mstsc.exe
  UNIX:		/usr/sww/bin/rdesktop
  MACOSX:	"/Applications/Remote Desktop Connection/Remote Desktop Connection"

  You can also download it for free:

  Windows: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools/rdclientdl.mspx
  MacOSX:  http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/remote-desktop/default.mspx
  Linux:   http://www.rdesktop.org/
  
  These Instructional computers are Remote Desktop Servers:

	wserver1.eecs.berkeley.edu
	wserver2.eecs.berkeley.edu
	wserver3.eecs.berkeley.edu
	wserver4.eecs.berkeley.edu
	wserver7.eecs.berkeley.edu

  PLEASE LOGOUT BY SELECTING Start->Shutdown->log off rather than by clicking 
  on the X at the upper right corner.  Otherwise, you will only put your 
  remote logon to sleep and therefore block others from access.  
  
  This service is not as efficient as remote logins to UNIX computers.  The
  Terminal Server will allow only a limited number of remote users at a time.  

  For information about running a Remote Desktop server on your 
  own computer (running Windows XP Professional), see
  http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/default.mspx


Bug in UNIX 'rdesktop' Full-Screen mode
---------------------------------------
  We have this 'rdesktop' bug on our Sunrays: if you start it in full-screen 
  mode ('rdesktop -f'), the CTRL+ALT+<ENTER> keystrokes fail to take it out 
  of full-screen mode and you can't get back to the UNIX Window manager.

  The WEB site https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rdesktop/+bug/153995
  gives second-best work-arounds: you either have to log out of the Windows 
  session to kill rdesktop or logout of the SunRay UNIX session with 
  CTRL-ALT-Backspace. 

  We hope this is fixed in a future release of 'rdesktop'.


Software that Works on Remote Desktop Servers
---------------------------------------------
  Many Windows software products cannot run on a server with multiple
  concurrent users.  Here is a list of application programs that we have 
  tested.  These seem to work for multiple concurrent users:

  MATLAB
  ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5
  LTSPICE
  AGILENT ADS
  SOLIDWORKS 2004, SOLIDWORKS 2005
  EWS MULTISIM 9, MULTISIM 10 (but unsupported by vendor)



Software that Does Not Work on Remote Desktop Servers
-----------------------------------------------------
  Many Windows applications don't run on Remote Desktop Servers either because
  of licensing or because they open files that can't be shared by multiple 
  concurrent users.  It's not always clear right away.  Here is a list of 
  programs that have failed to run on our RDC servers:

  ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
  HSPICE (ownership conflict on open files; Sep 2007)
  EXCEED (only runs on the session of the first user who starts an X session)
  XMING  (only runs on the session of the first user who starts an X session)
  ALLEGRO CL
  CADENCE
  SOLIDWORKS 2006+
  ANKHSVN
  NUNIT
  TESTDRIVEN.NET

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