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Using Windows Terminal Services with Linux
If you are like me and you prefer using Linux, but are forced to use Windows at the job for various tasks, then using Windows Terminal Services is a nice way of getting around the need to boot into Windows to do routine domain maintenance, run a certain application, etc. Luckily, its real easy to do, you don't need any Windows software, and its simple. How you may ask ?, rdesktop is the answer, here's the deal.
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000/2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA , no server extensions are required.
rdesktop was initially written by Matthew Chapman based on various scarce documentation, wire sniffs, and trial-and-error. It is made available to the rest of us under the GNU Public Licence (GPL). So now you know a bit more about rdesktop, lets install it and see how it works !
Their are 2 ways you can obtain and install rdesktop, you can either install it using your package managment system (assuming your distro makes the package available), or you can install it from the sourceball. We'll cover both ways just in case, note that for installing packages from source it is assumed you have the required development tools loaded, we won't be covering that here. The machine being used for this tutorial is running Fedora Core 1 so you'll need to adjust the commands for your distro as needed.| 3 page(s) | « | 1 | 2 | 3 | > | » |