Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

[msg <michael dot grigoni at cybertheque dot org>]

Earle,

Thanks for your reply.  Yes, rdesktop on Unix works well for us too
but we need to build a standalone Win2k-serving-Xterminals-with-
Windows-Desktop-sessions solution. Other than Citrix, rdesktop seems
to be the only alternative....??????

Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum


"Earle F. Philhower, III" wrote:
> 
> Howdy Michael,
> 
> ---------- Original Message -------------
> Subject: Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?
> 'rdesktop.exe' doesn't honor a command-line display argument and
> setting Windows and Cygwin environment variables 'display' and
> 'DISPLAY' has no effect.
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> I can confirm that the rdesktop 1.2.0 that I downloaded and compiled under
> Solaris displays fine under XWin -multiwindow -multiplescreens, for connections
> to both terminal servers and my WinXP laptop.  I just set the $DISPLAY properly
> in the xterm and rdesktop <server>...
> 
> Under Windoze there's no need for rdesktop, you can use the free
> Remote Desktop Connection utility from MS (supported under Win 98, 2000,
> and built-in underXP).  The MS version is also faster and supports 16-bit
> displays which is almost a necessity for XP remotes, with all their eye-candy.
> --
> -Earle F. Philhower, III
>  earle@ziplabel.com
>  http://www.ziplabel.com