rdesktop
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 rdesktop on Linux connected to a Windows Vista host |
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| Developed by | rdesktop team |
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| Latest release | 1.6.0 / May 10, 2008 |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Microsoft Terminal Services client |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www.rdesktop.org |
rdesktop is a free, open source client for Microsoft's proprietary RDP protocol. It is released under the GNU General Public License and is available on Unix-like systems such as BSD and Linux.
As of July 2008, rdesktop implements a large subset of the RDP 5 protocol, including:
- Bitmap caching
- File system, audio, serial port and printer port redirection
- Mappings for most international keyboards
- Stream compression and encryption
- Automatic authentication
- Smartcard support
rdesktop also has features with no direct analogue in the official Microsoft RDP client:
- A "seamless" mode (in which server-side windows are one-to-one mapped to X11 windows on the client)
Still unimplemented are:
- Remote Assistance requests (the protocol for which remains undocumented)
- USB device redirection
Support for the additional features available in RDP 5.1 and RDP 6 (including multi-head display spanning and window composition) also have not yet been implemented.
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[edit] Use
rdesktop is commonly used on desktop Linux installations to connect to Microsoft Windows computers running Terminal Services, including Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Terminal Server, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. The program has also been integrated into several thin client Linux distributions like Thinstation, as well as some thin client appliances.
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[edit] External links
- rdesktop website
- KDE front-end for rdesktop
- xrdp - RDP server for Unix, based on rdesktop
- CoRD - A native Cocoa interface for the OS X port of rdesktop.
- properJavaRDP - rdesktop based Free Java Remote Desktop Connection Client
