Bonjour tout le monde,

I've just uploaded an SRPM for rdesktop, which is a client implementing
the RDP 4.0 protocol as used by Windows Terminal Server (NT/2000/XP).
The package name is rdesktop-1.1.0pl19.8.4-1mdk.src.rpm

rdesktop was developed by Samba team member Matthew Chapman under the
GPL license. It is mainly based on reverse engineering, i.e. wire
sniffs. I reckon this could be a problem with all these copyright
and patent laws nowadays. Then again, Samba is included in Mandrake
so what the heck.

The unofficial 'unified' patch by Peter Bystroem has also been 
included with this SRPM. I've made an M4 spec.in file in an attempt to 
make the SRPM distribution independent. This spec.in file takes a 
couple of optional arguments, e.g. you can build the RPM without the 
above mentioned unified patch. There also an option to build an SVGAlib
version, for those low-RAM 486s you may have lying around. I've editted
the resulting spec file in the uploaded SRPM a tiny bit, to accomodate
the Mandrake guidelines.

In case you want to try rdesktop but you don't have a Windows TS
available, use this demo server (with permission):
scylla.odyssey.securewave.com (158.64.60.49). It's a demo server
made available by security company SecureWave as a showcase for
their SecureExe product.

Any suggestions, remarks, corrections etc. are much appreciated.

The rdesktop homepage is at:
http://www.rdesktop.org

More information on this SRPM can be found at:
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/rdesktop/

Jacco
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