Rdesktop

rdesktop allows you to control a Windows NT and Windows 2000/2003 computer via a remote desktop from your linux workstation. You do not need to install an extension to your Windows computer.

= Installing rdesktop = Main article: installing software

To install rdesktop, find out your distribution and proceed accordingly

Gentoo
Install rdesktop for Gentoo emerge net-misc/rdesktop

SUSE
Install rdesktop for SUSE: yast -i rdesktop

Ubuntu
With synaptic, do a "quick search" for "rdesktop", and mark it for installation. Or, as root apt-get install rdesktop

generic
If this is not possible, you can compile rdesktop: wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/rdesktop/rdesktop-1.6.0.tar.gz tar xvzf rdesktop-1.6.0.tar.gz cd rdesktop-1.6.0 ./configure && make -j4 && make install
 * make sure you have openssl and wget installed
 * Download and unpack rdesktop:
 * build rdesktop:

= Using rdesktop =

Type: rdesktop  example: $ rdesktop 192.168.1.10 This starts rdesktop, opens up a terminal session on the machine you indicated (in this case 192.168.1.10), and opens a Windows login screen where you can type your username and password for the Windows machine.

= Making your windows machine audible =

If no sound is audible on your Linux machine it is possible that the setup of your machine is effectively blocking the rdesktop program to get a lock on /dev/snd. Particularly when using Alsa this can be the case. A way around it is to use the aoss wrapper; this can be done by using the following command:

$ aoss rdesktop 192.168.1.10 -r sound .... other flags and parameters...

The sound may be delayed somewhat.