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


hi!

Just a couple of quick thoughts here.. 

* I don't think rdesktop can display the xfree sessions from windows.

* xfree can't send stuff like word and so on from windows to a
  x-session on other machine. What is sent is to be X-applications.

  /Andy

/ msg <michael.grigoni@cybertheque.org> wrote:
| 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
|

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