Atrix laptop dock will support Citrix VM

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Just learned yesterday that you will have full Citrix support for Windows, OSX and Linux for VM on the atrix laptop dock. Thought this might be useful to some, and shows that the capability will be much greater than previously thought.

Regular RDP Client would be better

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The Citrix client is cool, if your company has XenDesktop or XenApp.

But for most of us, those enterprise tools are just too expensive and unnecessary. We use regular windows remote desktop (with a firewall) at my office. Plus most consumers at home will already have access to windows remote desktop with their home computers.

In sum, what I really want is a generic RDP client. Then, anything that required a native application, like microsoft word, could be invoked through the RDP client.

Just out of curiosity, are there any consumer-level applications that we may be able to run through the webtop?

Originally Posted by krkeegan

The Citrix client is cool, if your company has XenDesktop or XenApp.

But for most of us, those enterprise tools are just too expensive and unnecessary. We use regular windows remote desktop (with a firewall) at my office. Plus most consumers at home will already have access to windows remote desktop with their home computers.

In sum, what I really want is a generic RDP client. Then, anything that required a native application, like microsoft word, could be invoked through the RDP client.

Your android apps can run in full screen in webtop. Android has plenty of vnc and rdp clients.

Originally Posted by glitterbug

Your android apps can run in full screen in webtop. Android has plenty of vnc and rdp clients.

That is very true. Although apps running from Android and not through the webtop will be limited to the resolution of the phone. They will look like iPhone apps running on the iPad.

Not ideal, but you are correct it is still a solution. However, given the exhorbitant price for the lapdock I think I am going to look elsewhere. I don't need to suffer through any more ATT crap or deal with encrypted efuse devices if there is no reasonably priced lapdock.

Originally Posted by krkeegan

That is very true. Although apps running from Android and not through the webtop will be limited to the resolution of the phone. They will look like iPhone apps running on the iPad.

Not ideal, but you are correct it is still a solution. However, given the exhorbitant price for the lapdock I think I am going to look elsewhere. I don't need to suffer through any more ATT crap or deal with encrypted efuse devices if there is no reasonably priced lapdock.

Agree about the att BS. For the cost of the two year tether plan, you could buy a real laptop.

Originally Posted by SG Pillar

Just out of curiosity, are there any consumer-level applications that we may be able to run through the webtop?

I found an app you can easily install on your PC that will work with the WebTop mode for remote access to a home PC for free called ThinVNC. This is awesome since it supports the higher resolutions of the WebTop and the mouse and keyboard support is better than the native Android apps. It runs inside Firefox exactly like how the Citrix client runs. Citrix is good if your company supports it or you want to pay the subscription costs and use the VM desktop product they offer, but that by no means is a viable RDP solution.

I use PocketCloud for on the phone itself for RDP/VNC and I would highly recommend that app as well.


My Phones:
Motorola MicroTAC Elite
Nokia 7160
Nokia 6340i
Nokia 6230
Nokia 6682
HTC Tilt
HTC Fuse
HTC Tilt2 (custom ROM)
Samsung Captivate (custom ROM,rooted)
Motorola Atrix (rooted)

You can use either rdesktop for command-line goodness, or tsclient/gnome-rdp for some graphical remote desktop sessions in the webtop. All can be found already compiled for armel Jaunty. Dependancies might be a bear to work through for the latter, but rdesktop is a very simple install. tsclient depends on rdesktop, so I'd recommend that route.

tsclient
rdesktop

Originally Posted by krkeegan

The Citrix client is cool, if your company has XenDesktop or XenApp.

But for most of us, those enterprise tools are just too expensive and unnecessary. We use regular windows remote desktop (with a firewall) at my office. Plus most consumers at home will already have access to windows remote desktop with their home computers.

In sum, what I really want is a generic RDP client. Then, anything that required a native application, like microsoft word, could be invoked through the RDP client.

You can use Citrix XenDeskop Express for free (up to 10 pcs).

How do you install the TSClient or rDesktop apps mentioed above?