beatgammit's questions

I am working on an application that displays remote applications on a local machine. On Linux, this is done by creating a custom x server on the host and forwarding the TCP packets to the client.

I would very much like to make this work with Windows, and supporting access through any modern browser is a future goal. This means that any communication must be able to work over a network connection.

I am looking for a UDP, TCP, or HTTP API. I control the host, so I can install any software necessary there. If there is no network API, then I can create one.

Is there an open API for forwarding drawing of an application to a remote client? (like this for X)

I found this, but it doesn't seem to provide an API for creating my own TS Web Access-like client.

Note:

I've heard about Cisco's products, as well as VMWare's, and I know about the different remote desktop applications available for Windows. These are not what I'm looking for. I am looking for an API where I could implement the drawing on a remote machine (I don't want the whole desktop, only the application).

I would also like a complete package (mouse and keyboard events).

I want to hook into the domain user login system and handle my own local profile creation. I have two basic related questions:

1. How do I intercept the domain user authentication?
2. Can I handle the creation of user profiles myself?
   • Using roaming profiles is not an option
   • Using mandatory profiles is also not an option

Target Platforms- Windows 7 Enterprise, Professional, Home Premium (optional)

I don't mind using Active Directory, but I would prefer to use Linux (Samba 4?) software because my servers will all be running Linux. This is relatively unrelated because I just want some documentation, or even what to search for on Google.

• Can all domain users be logged into one local profile?
• In Windows, what is a "user profile"?

EDIT: I found this link on Microsoft's msdn webpage.

I also found this to be really helpful in getting started with customizing GINA.

Do I need any special software to create an authentication package? Can I access a web or network resource from this script to validate credentials?