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


msg wrote:

> 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.

is the DISPLAY variable set? If not, then rdesktop does not know where
to display the window.

> '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?

xdm on windows? This is very complicated.

bye
    ago
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