Something that took me a long time to notice was that you can actually copy files directly over a RDP session from/to the local machine or other RDP sessions using the clipboard.. Even nested RDPs. Has been an absolute timesaver to know about when doing Windows admin work.
Re:Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked
by rurounijones on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:06AM
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Doesn't work for me when using an RDP client on Linux. Is this an RDP spec thing or a microsoft only feature?
Re:Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked
by jethro_tell on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:41AM
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I think it depends on how you mount your clipboard/drives on rdp connect. To get it right with windows you just check the share clipboard/share drive checkboxes and off to the races. With rdesktop you have to throw the -r flag and mount a clip board and then the -r flag and mount a drive. Not sure about other Linux clients but I'm sure there's a similar option in all of them.
Re:Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked
by rurounijones on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @03:17AM
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Excellent, thank you very much. I use KRDC and a bit of googling shows that that uses rdesktop in the background. I shall investigate.
Sysadmins being lazy.
Somebody needs to get a file from a workstation to a remote machine. There's a firewall in the way somewhere that prevents SSH directly between them or one of them is a Windows box that isn't running an SSH server.
The "correct" solution is complicated and takes 5 minutes to setup. So the sysadmin just copies the file to the web server and downloads it with a browser on the other end. Because port 80 is always open.