[NTLUG:Discuss] rdesktop

[Jack Snodgrass]

Just want to second the thought.... I was very pleasantly surprised when
I did a 
google search for linux and terminal services and found rdesktop. It's
GREAT. 
I had to get some current patches to get it to work on Solaris with a
Solaris 
keyboard. 

The only drawback is the clipboard doesn't work.... it's only flaw. 

jack 


On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 10:47, MadHat wrote:

    For those of you like me that have to use some other OSs for work, or
    what ever reason, the subject of remote control is always an issue.  VNC
    has been one option, but frankly the stability and security have been
    lacking, and on slower speed networks, can be almost unusable.  Of
    course controlling a Unix desktop from a non-unix desktop has always
    been fairly simple with X and port forwarding, tunneling and other
    means.  But trying to go the other direction....  
    I use Linux as my desktop, but find that I have to fall back to a
    Windows box for some tasks at work and at home.  I have found that
    Terminal Services for Windows is actually quite nice, in that it does
    not take over the existing session, as it has a virtual desktop it
    creates.  The speed is decent and seems fairly secure as compared to
    some other methods.  What is nice is that with rdesktop
    (http://www.rdesktop.org) I can use the existing TS on my Windows 2K/XP
    boxes, it is open source and like the website states "Unlike Citrix ICA,
    no server extensions are required."  I always had issues getting Citrix
    to work anyway.
    
    Anyway, I have had good luck with this and wanted to pass it on.  It is
    only 98K compiled and the source is only 80K (tgz).  It took less that 1
    minute to compile on my P3 650MHz notebook.  It uses about 1.2K of
    resident memory (according to top).   So far no issues and works fine
    with a small footprint.  No GUI for startup, but that would be easy to
    do.
    
    
    -- 
    MadHat at Unspecific.com
    "Anyone who understands Linux/Unix, really understands the universe.
     Anyone who understands Windows, really understands Windows."
              - Richard Thieme, DefCon 10, 2002 
    
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