Something from another LUG - pretty interesting. George -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Terminal Server On Linux Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:31:11 -0500 Resent-From: jaxlug-list@jaxlug.org Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:37:12 -0800 (PST) From: Chris de Vidal Reply-To: chris@devidal.tv To: jaxlug-list@jaxlug.org This comes courtesey of my MIS and good friend Steve Lester. I think he got it from W2KNews.com. CD ===================================== Terminal Server On Linux? Yes And No. In the last issue of W2Knews there was made mention of running MS Terminal Server on a Red Hat box. I have received MANY questions about that particular setup and have made a few clarifications as well. Here is a little background data: I had heard rumors that there was a Terminal Server client that ran well on Linux so I went to have a look. It was an amazingly short search to find the client, which is aptly named "rdesktop". The developer is a fellow in Australia named Matt Chapman. Nice piece of software. Download at the end of this article. First of all, the setup is a Dell Optiplex GX110 with an Intel 933MHz processor with 512 MB of RAM. This setup is much more than is necessary to run Linux, but what can I say. :-) The version of Linux is Red Hat 7.2 (Enigma) and an out-of-the-box install (I know, I know but it was just to test the client). The client itself is a 48 KB download, 216 KB uncompressed. Once installed, the client is called from the command line and all parameters can be entered in the command. The client can be totally configured to do all of the basic option of the RDP client. The options are as follows: Usage: rdesktop [options] server -u: user name -d: domain -s: shell -c: working directory -p: password (autologon) -n: client hostname -k: keyboard layout (hex) -g: desktop geometry (WxH) -f: full-screen mode -b: force bitmap updates -e: disable encryption (French TS) -m: do not send motion events -l: do not request license The -l option is interesting, in that it doesn't request a license from the terminal server itself. With the use of some scripting, you could have the Red Hat box boot up, logon and start the rdesktop client all without the user doing anything. Once the client is started in full screen mode you really can't tell that your aren't on a Windows machine; even Ctrl-Alt-Del works. It really is a slick client and could potentially save you quite a bit of money. If you run rdesktop, you will, at a minimum, save on one Windows license. Potentially more if you also used Sun's StarOffice. In either case, rdesktop is a pretty good implementation of the terminal server client and if you are using Linux, it will give you a way to connect to your MS server. We have mirrored the download here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=020214TB-rdesktop __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com