[H-GEN] Any rdesktop users out there?

[Ewan Edwards]

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Raymond,

I run rdesktop almost on a daily basis on a RedHat7.1 Intel box to access W2k 
and NT4 terminal servers.  These machines are all configured TS to run in 
remote admin mode.  I have used rdesktop to access a W2k box with TS in 
application server mode with success.  

Unfortunately I've never tried on any other platform.  However I did once 
attempt to build it on a SGI Irix machine but that failed and I didn't persue 
it as i didn't have the time.

If rdesktop has any problems it sends some information to standard output, so 
if you haven't already, try running it from a terminal window to see if it 
tells you something useful.  The only time I ever had problems connecting was 
when using the TS's host/netbios name that didn't happen to be in the DNS.  
As a result I had to use the TS's IP address as below.  

<snip>
[ewane at opal ~]$ rdesktop -4 -l -d mineworks -P 90 172.17.117.157
rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client.
Version 1.0.0-pl19-7-1. Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Matt Chapman.
See http://www.rdesktop.org/ for more information.
 
Connection successful.
disconnecting
[ewane at opal ~]$
<snip>

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Ewan



On Thursday 28 March 2002 15:10, Raymond Smith wrote:
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> Hi:
>
> I am trying to get rdesktop to work from a Solaris 2.8 box to a W2K Server
> running an 'Administrative' terminal service. Has anyone else tried this?
> Has anyone had success?
>
> I'm not sure what my problem is, but it appears to me as if the rdesktop
> client is not successfully connecting. I would run tcpdump to try to debug
> this but I do not have sudo on my workstation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Raymond
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