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Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop Protocol in Node.js

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Post by awinder »

nodesocket wrote: post #5

Very nice work, but Microsoft did a pretty good job with their RDP clients, and making them for OS X and of course Windows. I'm not sure what the draw is for a web-based RDP client.

Others have alluded to this elsewhere in the comments, but the draw is that this is a programmable rdp client in Node.JS. You can use this to write host scripting code, you could use this as the basis for something like Screenhero, etc.

Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop Protocol in Node.js

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Post by sciurus »

stephengillie wrote: post #2

Oh cool! Now you can embed an RDP session into a webpage. Finally, a way to use the primary system administration tool from almost anywhere! With this, you can hand out links to pages with your server RDP already configured - just send the link to the admin and let them administer. How well does this work with dynamic username/password? If we wanted to leave those fields blank, and maybe have the webpage prompt on op…

Is graphical remote desktop really the primary systems administration tool in the windows server world?

Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop Protocol in Node.js

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Post by stephengillie »

sciurus wrote: post #16
stephengillie wrote: post #2

Oh cool! Now you can embed an RDP session into a webpage. Finally, a way to use the primary system administration tool from almost anywhere! With this, you can hand out links to pages with your server RDP already configured - just send the link to the admin and let them administer. How well does this work with dynamic username/password? If we wanted to leave those fields blank, and maybe have the webpage prompt on op…

Is graphical remote desktop really the primary systems administration tool in the windows server world?

Yeah, it's a widely accepted de facto method for interacting with the GUI. While in Server 2012, it feels like all GUI elements are just wrappers for Powershell cmdlets, most 3rd party tools have only a graphical interface.

Server 2003 doesn't support Powershell 4 or newer, nor .NET 4.5.1 or newer, and so IIS6 and other old Windows features have limited CLI interfaces.

Most Powershell cmdlets work on Server 2008/R2, but remote (WinRM) isn't enabled. There's a quick command to enable, but that's a security hole like leaving WMI open to the internet, and so is hard to push on secure environments.

RDP gives KVM, and that's been enough for decades.

Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop Protocol in Node.js

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Post by scott_karana »

smrtinsert wrote: post #14
nly wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have this already with VNC. Ramnode has a HTML5 VNC client in their CP.

VNC is supposedly much slower than RDP.

VNC is a raster/pixel protocol. RDP uses Windows' drawing primitives.

So for anything that's not intrinsically raster (video, 3d rendering), RDP is certainly faster. :)

Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop Protocol in Node.js

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Post by NeutronBoy »

sciurus wrote: post #16
stephengillie wrote: post #2

Oh cool! Now you can embed an RDP session into a webpage. Finally, a way to use the primary system administration tool from almost anywhere! With this, you can hand out links to pages with your server RDP already configured - just send the link to the admin and let them administer. How well does this work with dynamic username/password? If we wanted to leave those fields blank, and maybe have the webpage prompt on op…

Is graphical remote desktop really the primary systems administration tool in the windows server world?

Maybe for tasks in s small show or on a specific server, but you'll find that most enterprises have automated tools for provisioning, deployment, patching, etc.
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