Is there any documentation for the FreeRDP plugin?
I would like to see if it is possible to set up a SOCKS configuration (like I do in Royal TSX).
I also have the minimized FreeRDP window issue in my test installation.
Hi Tim,
thanks for the feedback. Integrating FreeRDP in Royal TS for Windows is not as easy as it sounds. Right now we don't have the resources to work on something like that, especially when the Microsoft RDP ActiveX still works great. I suggest we let this thread open and see how much interest others have in FreeRDP for Windows.
Regards,
Stefan
Plus one here.
We just engineered a solution with a Socks5 proxy on Ubuntu just for this use case. I personally have used Royal TSX (Mac), which is based on the FreeRDP library, where the Socks5 Proxy works really well.
We were almost about to purchase a site license for Royal TS when one of our engineers realized that there is no proxy configuration available for Royal TS (with the Active X lib).
We are now looking for another RDP client solution, as we don't think that this will happen.
Thanks for the feedback, Magnus! As you can see, there hasn't been much demand for that in the past two years. I can understand that the proxy support is a desirable feature. Maybe we can integrate FreeRDP through an external application mode (similar to UltraVNC or PuTTY). This wouldn't be as hard as deeply integrating it into Royal TS on Windows the way we did on macOS. We will definitely explore this option and see if this can be done.
Regards,
Stefan
I saw there was a beta. The FreeRDP plugin doesn't work quite right for me yet. (No criticism; I know this is just a beta.)
When I connect (according to the log: successfully), I get a little titlebar in the bottom-left of the tab with the hostname of the connection. But the rest of the tab is blank, and I can't close the tab. Or the window. I have to force-close from Task Manager. I've dropped back to the Windows RDP plugin for the moment.
Hey!
I'm absolutely seconding that interest here. :)
Our aim is to use virtual channels in the RDP connections. Apparently ActiveX RDP does support that, but not fully and for every connection. FreeRDP does fully support VCs.
BR,
Sven
Oh, and: Contacted your support for the first time today. So far I got excellent help! Thanks!
Tim Kite
I wonder if we might be able to get an alternative RDP plugin for Royal TS on Windows vs. the one based on native Windows RDP? Maybe something based on FreeRDP like in Royal TSX?
Why? A few reasons. One, the native Windows plugin doesn't support folder redirection...only full drive redirection. I'd rather just share my downloads folder with the shared terminal server, and not my whole C drive, thanks! Also, while this may be more of a bug that I consider a feature, FreeRDP ignores the server side setting requiring people to manually type a password. It's super annoying on my Windows machine to have to log in again manually every time I resize the window or change monitors, while on my Mac I can just do that without thinking because the app will automatically log in for me with a saved password.
Also, it might just be me, but FreeRDP seems quite a bit faster than the native Windows RDP plugin. That might be apples to oranges and my Mac is just faster, but it's good to have choice I think.
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