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Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?
- From: msg <michael dot grigoni at cybertheque dot org>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:11:14 -0500
- Subject: Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?
- Organization: Cybertheque Museum
- References: <20030623174254.6E2C21C5A4@mail03.powweb.com>
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Earle,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, rdesktop on Unix works well for us too
but we need to build a standalone Win2k-serving-Xterminals-with-
Windows-Desktop-sessions solution. Other than Citrix, rdesktop seems
to be the only alternative....??????
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum
"Earle F. Philhower, III" wrote:
>
> Howdy Michael,
>
> ---------- Original Message -------------
> Subject: Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?
> 'rdesktop.exe' doesn't honor a command-line display argument and
> setting Windows and Cygwin environment variables 'display' and
> 'DISPLAY' has no effect.
> ---------------------------------------
>
> I can confirm that the rdesktop 1.2.0 that I downloaded and compiled under
> Solaris displays fine under XWin -multiwindow -multiplescreens, for connections
> to both terminal servers and my WinXP laptop. I just set the $DISPLAY properly
> in the xterm and rdesktop <server>...
>
> Under Windoze there's no need for rdesktop, you can use the free
> Remote Desktop Connection utility from MS (supported under Win 98, 2000,
> and built-in underXP). The MS version is also faster and supports 16-bit
> displays which is almost a necessity for XP remotes, with all their eye-candy.
> --
> -Earle F. Philhower, III
> earle@ziplabel.com
> http://www.ziplabel.com