shared clipboard with terminal server client on ubuntu
October 4th, 2007If you use the Terminal Server Client to connect to a Windows host (like Windows 2000 server or Windows XP) you may experience problems copying from local host and pasting to the remote host, and vice versa. The most likely is that you use the wrong connection protocol. Make sure that you set RDPv5 in Protocol:
This fixed the clipboard sharing between my Ubuntu and a Windows 2000 Advanced Server. You have nothing to lose if you try it too.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:56 pm I've been looking for this for ever!!! , FYI this also works with synergy shared machines!!!
June 9th, 2008 at 1:45 pm This also works on a Win 2003 server.
Thanks a lot for the tip, saves a lot of time!
January 21st, 2009 at 2:45 am oddly enough my experience has been the exact opposite on dapper, edgy, intrepid, and several versions of fedora. The ~/.tsclient/servername.rdp file needs to have the line protocol:i:4 is the standard "rdp" protocol rather than the "rdpv5" protocol. Either way, testing both of the protocols should result in a working clipboard.
April 21st, 2010 at 11:06 pm If you already have a bunch of .RDP files (generally under ~/.tsclient), you can do this by editing each one of them in gedit and changing the protocol from 0 to 4
November 11th, 2010 at 1:12 pm Works like a charm! Thanks!
December 2nd, 2010 at 6:05 pm Shared clipboard is working fine with RDPv5 protocol.
January 14th, 2011 at 2:36 am Thank you. Works fine for me. mind you I have to rdp to a little XP virtual machine to actualy then rdp to win 2008 box. Don't ask because I can't remember why.
Thanks again.
August 16th, 2011 at 5:43 pm This was a great help. Unfortunately it appears to be limited to sessions when not running full screen. I often run full screen sessions from my 12" laptop, as window mode is tedious.
Perhaps I need to figure out how to maximize size without running full screen.