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rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?
- From: msg <michael dot grigoni at cybertheque dot org>
- To: "cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 11:50:44 -0500
- Subject: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?
- Organization: Cybertheque Museum
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Greetings:
We need to configure a single-host Win2k Terminal Server solution;
this machine should provide Windows desktops on X-terminals. On
a test machine using Cygwin/Xfree86 one may telnet from the X-terminal
and establish an xterm (bash) session but 'rdesktop.exe' will not
open a session on the remote display. 'rdesktop.exe' does open
a session window on the console display if invoked from a console
command prompt.
'rdesktop' running on a Unix host works well to provide a Windows
session desktop on an X-terminal however we need to create a
configuration which doesn't require a separate Unix host to
provide X11 services.
Also XDM running on Cygwin/Xfree86 will produce a 'willing to manage'
broadcast and if the Win host is selected it does present a login
screen but fails on authentication. Has anyone made XDM work?
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum