GSoC Terminal Services mentor status

[Dumitru Savva]

Greetings,
I am a student that wants to work on developing ReactOS during this summer.
I got interested in Terminal Services idea. I have experience with C++ (and
bit of C) and Transport/Application layers network programming. I would
like to work on the part that is network related.
Is anyone available to mentor me for this task?
Thank you.

Best regards,
Dumitru

[Thomas Faber]

Hi,

Terminal Services is a relatively generic project that we might assign
almost any mentor to. Feel free to post any technical questions you
might have here or on #reactos-dev. If you'd like to talk to someone
privately, you may pick any of the devs that you see active on the
mailing list or IRC (check the wiki GSoC or "People of ReactOS" pages
to see who are mentors/devs).

There's a "How Terminal Services Works" document at Microsoft Technet
that I suggest you have a look at to get a feeling for the general
architecture, and which parts of it you might want to work on.

There are also various open source implementations of the Remote
Desktop Protocol that may be interesting to look at in preparation.
Note, however, that we are not interested in simply having a VNC-like
"Remote Desktop Server" -- TS is an integral part of the system and it
should be integrated into ReactOS in a way compatible with the
architecture on Windows.
So while there is a good chunk of networking work involved, and you are
free to make that the center of your proposal, be aware that this is
not a networking project by nature, and there will certainly be work
needed on architecture research/design as well as on core system
features and likely in the kernel.

Thanks!
-Thomas

On 2017-04-01 03:45, Dumitru Savva wrote:
> Greetings,
> I am a student that wants to work on developing ReactOS during this summer.
> I got interested in Terminal Services idea. I have experience with C++ (and
> bit of C) and Transport/Application layers network programming. I would
> like to work on the part that is network related.
> Is anyone available to mentor me for this task?
> Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
> Dumitru