Earle, Thanks for your reply. Yes, rdesktop on Unix works well for us too but we need to build a standalone Win2k-serving-Xterminals-with- Windows-Desktop-sessions solution. Other than Citrix, rdesktop seems to be the only alternative....??????
Michael Grigoni Cybertheque Museum "Earle F. Philhower, III" wrote: > > Howdy Michael, > > ---------- Original Message ------------- > Subject: Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal? > 'rdesktop.exe' doesn't honor a command-line display argument and > setting Windows and Cygwin environment variables 'display' and > 'DISPLAY' has no effect. > --------------------------------------- > > I can confirm that the rdesktop 1.2.0 that I downloaded and compiled under > Solaris displays fine under XWin -multiwindow -multiplescreens, for connections > to both terminal servers and my WinXP laptop. I just set the $DISPLAY properly > in the xterm and rdesktop <server>... > > Under Windoze there's no need for rdesktop, you can use the free > Remote Desktop Connection utility from MS (supported under Win 98, 2000, > and built-in underXP). The MS version is also faster and supports 16-bit > displays which is almost a necessity for XP remotes, with all their eye-candy. > -- > -Earle F. Philhower, III > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ziplabel.com
