RDP to Node

This is used to connect 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:

Clicking "RDP to Node" in the Node Options page will send your browser a MimeType "text/x-testbed-rdp" file with extension ".tbrdp".

You can specify any display resolution (rdesktop window size) you want in the rdp-mime.pl script. The default is 1280x1024 but it doesn't have to be one of the "normal" ones. And you can switch back and forth between sizes by just starting a new rdesktop with different arguments and "grabbing" the rlogin session away from the previous one.

But once an rdesktop is started up, its display resolution is fixed. If you make it smaller than the previous one, Windows will push your windows around to fit in the smaller space.

Instructions for Linux/FreeBSD:

Instructions for Windows: