Problems with rdesktop

Hi, I'm running rdesktop v1.3.0 on my Debian Sarge box. When I try to connect to a Windows XP system, this works fine with rdesktop WINPC. However, when I specify the color depth with rdesktop -a 16 WINPC, the connection is not established but I get the rdesktop usage message. What is wrong? Why

Re: Problems with rdesktop

Christian Christmann wrote: Hi, I'm running rdesktop v1.3.0 on my Debian Sarge box. When I try to connect to a Windows XP system, this works fine with rdesktop WINPC. However, when I specify the color depth with rdesktop -a 16 WINPC, the connection is not established but I get the rdesktop

Re: Problems with rdesktop

The man page says: Note that the colour depth may also be limited by the server configuration. I suspect the problem may be on the server end of things, but I'm unsure how you'd configure that. What I forgot to mention. On another machine running Solaris, I can run rdesktop with -a