Rdesktop

rdesktop is a RDP Remote Desktop Protocol

Remote Desktop Protocol is a multi-channel protocol that allows a user to connect to a computer running ...

client for most Unix-like Unix-like

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systems such as BSD Berkeley Software Distribution

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and Linux Linux

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. It is free Free software

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, open source Open-source software

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software, released under the GNU General Public Licence GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license [i], originally written by Richard Stallman [i] ...

. rdesktop interacts with Microsoft Microsoft

company_name = Microsoft Corporation ...

Terminal Services Terminal Services

Terminal Services or Terminal Server Edition is a component of Microsoft Windows NT [i] operating ...

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rdesktop is a RDP Remote Desktop Protocol

Remote Desktop Protocol is a multi-channel protocol that allows a user to connect to a computer running ...

client for most Unix-like Unix-like

A "Unix-like" operating system [i] is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix [i] system, while n...

systems such as BSD Berkeley Software Distribution

Berkeley Software Distribution is the Unix [i] derivative distributed by the University of California, Berkeley [i] ...

and Linux Linux

Linux is a Unix-like [i] computer operating system [i]. ...

. It is free Free software

Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation [i], is software [i] which can be used, copied ...

, open source Open-source software

Open-source software is computer software [i] whose source code [i] is available under a copyright license [i]...

software, released under the GNU General Public Licence GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license [i], originally written by Richard Stallman [i] ...

. rdesktop interacts with Microsoft Microsoft

company_name = Microsoft Corporation
...

Terminal Services Terminal Services

Terminal Services or Terminal Server Edition is a component of Microsoft Windows NT [i] operating ...

.

Major releases

rdesktop 1.4.1
rdesktop 1.0

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 Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a family of operating system [i]s by Microsoft [i]....

login screen on the machine with the IP 192.168.1.10.

One of the common scenarios is using rdesktop with some extra-light Linux distributive such as Thinstation or LTSP to build thin clients Thin client

A thin client is a computer in client-server [i] architecture networks which depends primarily on the c ...

. 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. Legacy PC such as 100 MHz Pentium with 16 Mb RAM will do the job.

External links

- GTK+ frontend for rdesktop, VNC, and other remote desktop tools
- rdp server for Unix, based on rdesktop