rdesktop

rdesktop

rdesktop connected to a Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition host
Developer(s) rdesktop team
Initial release April 4, 2001 (2001-04-04)
Stable release
1.8.3 / October 31, 2014 (2014-10-31)
Repository github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop
Operating system Unix-like
Microsoft Windows[1] (unofficial)
Type Microsoft Remote Desktop Services client
License GPL
Website www.rdesktop.org

rdesktop is an implementation of a client software for Microsoft's proprietary Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Rdesktop is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 3 and is available for Linux and BSD as well as for Microsoft Windows.

As of August 2013, rdesktop implements a large subset of the RDP 5 protocol, including:

Unlike Remote Desktop Connection in modern versions of Windows, rdesktop still supports the older RDP 4.0 protocol used by Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition and Windows 2000 Server.

Still unimplemented are:

Support for the additional features available in RDP 5.1 and RDP 6 (including multi-head display spanning, window composition and console connection) have not yet been implemented, although some have been officially documented on MSDN.[3]

Use

Rdesktop is commonly used on desktop ReactOS and Linux installations to connect to Microsoft Windows running Remote Desktop Services. There are many GUI clients, like tsclient, Gnome-RDP and KDE Remote Desktop Connection (KRDC), which are graphical front-ends to rdesktop. The program has also been integrated into several thin client Linux distributions like Thinstation and the PC TSC project, as well as some thin client appliances.

See also

References

  1. ↑ windows build
  2. ↑ http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5398718
  3. ↑ See for example, , , some documents of RDP 6.0
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/24/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.