Rdesktop
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- The correct title of this article is rdesktop. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
| rdesktop | |
| Developer: | rdesktop team |
|---|---|
| Latest release: | 1.5.0 / September 13, 2006 |
| OS: | Unix-like |
| Use: | Microsoft Terminal Services client |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | www.rdesktop.org |
rdesktop is a RDP client for most Unix-like systems such as BSD and Linux. It is free, open source software, released under the GNU General Public License. rdesktop interacts with Microsoft Terminal Services.
[edit] Using rdesktop
rdesktop is started by pointing the program to a computer running Windows Terminal Services.
rdesktop 192.168.1.10
This starts rdesktop, opens up a terminal session on the machine indicated, and opens a Windows login screen on the machine with the IP 192.168.1.10. By default rdesktop uses TCP port 3389.
One of the common scenarios is using rdesktop with some extra-light Linux distributive such as Thinstation or LTSP to build thin clients. E.g. a company has powerful Windows Server 2003 system running terminal services and line of business application. Thin client boots over network, downloads Thinstation with rdesktop and connects to Windows Server. A legacy PC such as a 100 MHz Pentium with 16 MB RAM will do the job.
[edit] External links
- rdesktop website
- rdesktop at SourceForge
- tsclient - GTK+ frontend for rdesktop, VNC, and other remote desktop tools
- KDE front-end for rdesktop
- grdesktop front-end for rdesktop
- KDE Universal Remote Desktop
- xrdp - RDP server for Unix, based on rdesktop
- CoRD - A native Cocoa interface for the OS X port of rdesktop.
- Java RDP Client - rdesktop based Free Java Remote Desktop Connection Client
