RDP Capability Needed

Question

I am looking to setup some computers as thinclients to connect to my MS Terminal Servers. We have a homebrew application that configures RDP sessions. A user logs into a webpage that dynamically generates a "launch.rdp" file. This file is generated to balance the load between servers.
What I'd like to do is configure an image to boot up into Mozilla. When the user goes to the webpage, I'd like the launch.rdp file to open up in a terminal server session.
I've tried with rdesktop and tsclient, but unfortunately neither would work with a "rdp" file. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

awk does what it advertises on this file too... not sure what you're doing wrong. This is an Arch box with gawk, right?
try sed:
sed -n '/^full address/s/.*:\(.*\)$/\1/p' launch.rdp
or grep...
grep -oE '[[:digit:]]+.[[:digit:]]+.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+' launch.rdp
or pure Bash!
while read line; do
try=${line##*:};
[[ $try =~ [[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+ ]] && echo $try
done < launch.rdp
Overboard:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define FULLADDRESS "full address:s:"
int main(void) {
char *buffer;
FILE *fd;
buffer = calloc(1, BUFSIZ);
fd = fopen("launch.rdp", "r");
if (!fd)
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
while (fgets(buffer, BUFSIZ, fd))
if (strstr(buffer, FULLADDRESS)) {
printf("%s", buffer + strlen(FULLADDRESS));
break;
free(buffer);
fclose(fd);
return 0;
edit: i need more sleep... brisbin's probably onto something...
Last edited by falconindy (2010-06-01 18:36:59)