Disk Access for RDP

[Stephen Phillips]

Binary package hint: gnome-rdp

I added rough support for sharing the local disk with the remote machine for RDP sessions. I have been copying files recently between machines, so this is a hot item for me. This works, but I am not sure if I should tweak it more to make it more robust.

Currently, I added three options to the RDP Profile dialog for Disk Access: None, Root, and Home Directory. I thought about putting a custom path, or maybe something like the drop down in Gnome's Print to File dialog, but I didn't go that far.

Please let me know how I can help to make this good enough for including in your version.

Thanks,

Stephen

[James P Michels III (james-p-michels)]

Doing this as a patch is a bit much. I was thinking it might be better to create a feature branch in the project SVN and give you access to it. Once you've added the code there, I can review and merge it into the main experimental branch.

Do you have an account with source forge?

[Stephen Phillips (stephen-kent-phillips)]

Yes, my user name is digitaleagle.

That sounds fine -- what ever makes it easiest on you.

Thanks,

Stephen

[James P Michels III (james-p-michels)]

You have been added. Please commit your changes to the experimental.diskaccess feature branch.

[Stephen Phillips (stephen-kent-phillips)]

Ok, I committed the changes to the branch.

Is this the best way to notify you? Should I be emailing you to let you know? Also, it seems weird to open a bug for a feature request, but I didn't see any feature request option in Launchpad.

Please let me know if I did everything right and if you want me to make any changes or do anything.

Thanks,

Stephen

[James P Michels III (james-p-michels)]

At this point, I think it would be a good idea to email me through sourceforge.

[Reinier Post (reinpost)]

As a heavy Ubuntu user, I'd love to see this feature.

As a workaround, create a wrapper script around rdesktop that performs automatic disk sharing.

An example is attached.

It works for me, but performance is abysmal - too poor to actually make this usable.

Perhaps this can be improved by modifying the wrapper.