hi! Just a couple of quick thoughts here..
* I don't think rdesktop can display the xfree sessions from windows. * xfree can't send stuff like word and so on from windows to a x-session on other machine. What is sent is to be X-applications. /Andy / msg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 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 | -- The parser of the compiler rests on the code! Please note, new email, @telia.com -> @comhem.se
