Goal:
To use xrdp as a proxy to view VNC connections from another ip address, while passing parameters to the vncviewer.
Everything works except passing the -viewonly switch to the vncserver that is running NOT on the xrdp host, but another pc running VNC server.
- Vnc server is running on WinXP and Win7.
- Xrdp is running on Ubuntu14 server with LXDE booting to console.
- The RDP client is Win7 and Win10.
Xrdp currently works on the local host using sesman and xorgxrdp.
Xrdp currently works as a proxy to the WinXP vncserver, but I am unable to pass switches or parameters to the vncviewer.
xrdp was compiled from git.
Configured with --enable-painter to allow a Win10 client and --enable-fuse for drive redirection.
./configure --enable-painter --enable-fuse
xorgxrdp was compiled from git.
Configured without any switches
./configure
This should not matter as it deals with the localhost X server and not the proxy vnc server.
Relevant section of the xrdp.ini file:
[rep7]
name=rep7
lib=libvnc.so
username=na
password=ask
ip=rep7
port=5900
This does work, but the vnc connection is read/write. I could set a separate view only password, but would like to avoid that because there are many computers to deal with.
I can run from the command line vncviewer -viewonly rep7.
I need to pass the viewonly switch via the xrdp.ini or other file.
What I have done so far:
The sesman.ini file has a key=value pair named param. I did try this in the xrdp.ini file with no luck.
param=-viewonly
I have replaced the lib=libvnc.so with lib=vncviewer -viewonly also quoted it lib='vncviewer -viewonly'.
also
lib=vncviewer
param=-viewonly
