20111203 Saturday December 03, 2011

Copy files via Remote Desktop (RDP) using Windows 7

I recently got a new Windows 7 laptop. Shortly thereafter, I used it to connect to my old Vista machine via RDP. I had checked the box under the Local Resources section of the remote desktop client that allowed mounting of my local drives, and sure enough I could see the C drive of my new computer available via the RDP connection. 

However, I was unable to copy files. Whenever I tried to drag from the remote machine and drop a file onto my local drive, I would get the following error:

You need permission to perform this action
\\tnsclient\C

Very helpful Microsoft. This worked fine under Vista and XP. I guess this is a new "feature" of Windows 7.

Anyway, here is the workaround.
  1. Select the file you want to copy in Windows Explorer on the remote machine.
  2. Go to the Edit menu and select "Copy to Folder...".
  3. Select the local drive you want to copy to (or drill down to whatever folder on the drive you want as the destination).
  4. Hit the "Copy" button.
The copy should now proceed as normal. I have no I idea why this works and drag/drop does not. Very unintuitive.

Anyway, hope this helps someone stuck in the same situation.

Posted by rickg ( Dec 03 2011, 04:06:55 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]
20110129 Saturday January 29, 2011

Installing Gnome with yum

I was cleaning up my CentOS system the other day, and removed some packages that I thought I didn't need. I quickly clicked through the warning listing a few other packages that for which the "unneeded" ones were dependencies...and when I rebooted I no longer had Gnome/Nautilus. Yuck...I hate the basic XWindows interface.

Anyway, this command did the trick:

yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"

After a reboot, I had my beloved UI back.

Posted by rickg ( Jan 29 2011, 09:24:33 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]
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