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Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?
Michael,
If I've got this right:
You've got a Windows terminal server you want to access from X
terminals, using rdesktop.
As a test I've just grabbed the 1.2.0 sources from rdesktop.org,
compiled fine in cygwin with no changes.
I've got XP on my laptop so I turned on remote desktop support (same
idea as terminal server except exports current session rather then
spawning a new one for the connection).
I then started an X server on another machine with no access control
(xhost+, or -ac when starting Xwin).
I set the display variable under cmd.exe with 'set DISPLAY=aa.bb.cc.dd:0'
launched 'rdesktop.exe localhost'
Rdesktop popped up on the x server I'd started, and I could login into
my XP box (with rdesktop itself running from the XP box).
This seems to be what you want.
As I see it you've got 2 areas to work on;
i) getting Rdesktop running on your server (and displaying on the xterminal)
ii) figuring out how to remotely launch rdesktop from the xterminal -
either XDM session, or telnet.
jeb
PS: Email me to let me know if you get this going - its an idea I've
thought of myself before now.