This is used to contact to a Windows node in your experiment and get a remote Windows Desktop using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). First, you need an RDP client program installed on your computer:
rdp-mime.pl
or
associate it with rdp-mime.pl
in your web browser. You
can download the rdp-mime.pl
Perl
program here.
Instructions for Linux/FreeBSD:
rdp-mime.pl
script into
a directory of your choice (/usr/local/bin
,
or ~/bin
are two good places.)rdp-mime.pl
,
a new xterm window with an rdp session open to your node
should emerge.preferences
from the edit
menu.Navigator
, then Applications
under
it.New...
button.MIMEType
box, type text/x-testbed-rdp
Suffixes
box, type tbc
Application
in the Handled by
boxApplication
, either type the path to the
rdp-mime.pl
script, or use Choose...
to find
it.%s
after the
path to the application in the box. This tells netscape to actually
pass the control file into rdp-mime.pl (Mozilla does not require this;
see below.)OK
, then OK
again.preferences
from the edit
menu.Navigator
, then Helper Applications
under it.New Type...
button.MIMEType
box,
type text/x-testbed-rdp
File extension
box, type tbc
Application to use
, either type the path to the
rdp-mime.pl
script, or use Choose...
to find
it.%s
.OK
, then OK
again.preferences
from the File
menu.Applications
, then File Types
under it.New ...
button.MIMEType
box,
type text/x-testbed-rdp
File extension
box, type tbc
Open with other application
, either type the path to
the rdp-mime.pl
script, or use Choose...
to
find it.%s
.OK
, then OK
again.