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rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and |
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Windows 2000 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote |
rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client. |
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Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT |
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desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required. |
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rdesktop is a client for Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server, Windows 2000 |
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rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window |
Terminal Services, Windows XP Remote Desktop, and possibly other Terminal |
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System, and other ports should be fairly straightforward. |
Services products. rdesktop currently implements the RDP version 4 protocol. |
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rdesktop was written by Matt Chapman (matthewc@cse.unsw.edu.au) based |
Installation |
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on various scarce documentation, wire sniffs, and trial-and-error. It |
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is released under the GNU Public Licence (GPL). Please send feedback, |
rdesktop uses a typical GNU-style build procedure: |
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bug reports and patches to the appropriate mailing list |
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(http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=24366) |
% ./configure [options] |
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% make |
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rdesktop is a Sourceforge project. See the Sourceforge rdesktop |
% make install |
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project info (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdesktop/) for more |
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information. |
where documentation for [options] can be found by running "./configure --help". |
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Usually no options are necessary. The default is to install under /usr/local, |
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this can be changed with --prefix=directory. |
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Invocation |
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% rdesktop [options] server |
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where server is the name of the Terminal Services machine. Note: if you |
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receive "Connection refused", this probably means that the server does not have |
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Terminal Services enabled, or there is a firewall blocking access. |
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The rdesktop manual page lists the possible options ("man rdesktop"). |
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