Hello,I’ve noticed this for a while, but finally blogging it to grab peoples attention. I use a Microsoft PPTP server at the office to connect to using PPTP. From Windows it works perfectly fine and i’m able to remain connected and go about my work. However, from OSX, it works fine for a while – then if there is no activity on the connection, it kinda drops the connection – but not completely. Pinging anything at the office sometimes gives aping: sendto: No buffer space availableafter a while of pinging, it’ll stop and everything will resume. If after i connect, i leave a ping going this doesnt happen.Wonder whats going on….
New Leopard Feature…
So, i was working on my new Leopard install on my Macbook Pro and needed to Remote Desktop into a server at my office to start a Scheduled Task.Being a new laptop, i went to www.rdesktop.org, downloaded the source, opened up a new terminal, typed incd Downloadstar -xzf rdesktop* cd rdesktop*./configuremakesudo make installrdesktop servername and i did my work with the scheduled task, apple-w to close and i was done. Hang on a minute. My brain stopped for a second and thought about what had just happened. Did i just run “rdesktop” from the OSX terminal, and go straight into my server? Did Leopard actually spawn X11 for me, and run rdesktop within that ?Wow. Thanks Apple.