The ladies at the front desk quickly noted that the 10 key pad wasnt working. I chased this around and around, looking at keyboard mapping, and googling my heart out. Finally a clue.. It seemed that some had better luck with x11rdp running the show rather than xdrp.
Found that it wasnt in the normal ubuntu repositories, but a wickedly good programmer had a script available to load, and compile x11rdp along with a configuration gui for the user accounts to choose which gui they would each load. Bottom line... It just plain works. I sent him a nice donation via paypal. X11rdp. Seems to have made the login and log out processes rock solid.
Ubuntu itself also had a little problem with some false error reporting, un related to all this, but some good references let me change a config flag, and now that annoyance is gone.... It was popping up occasionally and ruining the desktop session.
No cookbook yet.. But for those who feel they have to try... Ubuntu 12.04. Wine 1.5. Must run x11rdp. Must have samba and especially the smbfs services loaded. Turn off oplocks on your samba share. If you dont, then the windows avimark sessions get blown out of the water, while the linux wine sessions soldier on. Samba share needs to have default user forced to guest. The easiest way to set up your samba share is to download and use the debian package of Webmin. Webmin gives you a very nice interface for looking at and tweaking all of your setup. I am not much for memorizing command line stuff.
Each log in session needs its own user account. Each account needs a .xsession file in its home directory to tell which gui loads.. The x11drp auto script from scarygliders.net and the gui config utility will get you there quicker. Setting user accounts and groups and passwords is much easier with webmin as well.
Now its off to week 2 of a windows light office.
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