Start Remmina using run_command

[forstera]

Hello all,
I'm an it and I work for a school. I was looking for a thin client to start computers with rdesktop or equivalent to be able to connect to a windows multipoint server (school) and
I just discoverted porteus ; it's really great
I'm now able to save my confif on ftp folder and my 25 computers can connect to it when starting
The only thing I can't do is starting remmina automatically when computer boots and connect automatically to my server. I was able to save all my preferences to a remmina file but it's on the local computer. So, is it possible to access and save it on my ftp folder and modifiy my config.txt file to tell my computers to automatically start remmina with that file ?
Let me know if my english is not very comprehensive ..
I should make a demo to the direction next friday .... to accept or not porteus ...
Per advance, thanks to all for your help
Regards
Arnaud

[fanthom]

Hello Arnaud,

This may help:
http://porteus-kiosk.org/thinclient.htm ... ct_remmina

[forstera]

Hi Fanthom,
Thanks, it worked like this
I still have some few things but as I can see these are remmina restrictions :

- When importing the remmina config file, it seems that password is not working so I've to reenter it on every station...
- I tried to save and import the remmina.pref file. Importing the file works but not the whole file is imported. The [remmina_pref] and [ssh_colors] sections are imported but not the [remmina] section.
Is there a way to solve that ?

Thanks to all for your great help
Arnaud

[fanthom]

There is a problem with saving RDP password in remmina.
It requires 'gnome-keyring' service which makes the whole thing pointless as you still need to enter a password to open the wallet.

I would suggest you using custom build with 'rdesktop' or 'xfreerdp' apps which allows to provide a password through command line switch and can be used perfectly with our 'run_command=' parameter.
Sample:

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xfreerdp /v:SERVER.DOMAIN.COM /cert-ignore /u:USERNAME /d:DOMAIN /p:PASSWORD /load-balance-info:”tsv://VMResource.1.Students” /f

[forstera]

Thanks very much for your answer. I already started to install my 25 computers bcause I've the demo tomorrow and I'll have a lack of time
According to your answer and if the school decides to work with Porteus, could I ask for an offer to prepear a custom build for their need ?

[fanthom]

Please contact with [email protected] for a quote.

[forstera]

Hello fanthom,
So I made a test using xfreerdp and the options you wrote and it worked like a 'charm', thanks very much If I can, may I ask you what is the option "sv://VMResource.1.Students" ?
Again, thanks very much for your help
Arrnaud

[fanthom]

To be honest i have no idea what this particular switch does ...
I know its required for some RDP connections so probably it depends on RDP server configuration.

Here is description for all xfreerdp options:
https://www.mankier.com/1/xfreerdp

[fanthom]

Seems i was wrong. 'gnome keyring' is not needed so save connection password.

'secret=' hash (used to decrypt the passwords) is stored in a separate /home/guest/.config/remmina/remmina.pref file and this file must be either persistent ('presistence=full' parameter) or downloaded from remote storage.

I have fixed ThinClient ISO to keep remmina.pref persistent when 'persistence=full' is used and also updated kiosk documentation to cover mass deployments (files kept on remote storage):
http://porteus-kiosk.org/thinclient.htm ... ct_remmina