Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

[Jeremy Wilkins <jeb at jeremywilkins dot freeserve dot co dot uk>]

Michael,

If I've got this right:

You've got a Windows terminal server you want to access from X 
terminals, using rdesktop.

As a test I've just grabbed the 1.2.0 sources from rdesktop.org, 
compiled fine in cygwin with no changes.

I've got XP on my laptop so I turned on remote desktop support (same 
idea as terminal server except exports current session rather then 
spawning a new one for the connection).

I then started an X server on another machine with no access control 
(xhost+, or -ac when starting Xwin).

I set the display variable under cmd.exe with 'set DISPLAY=aa.bb.cc.dd:0'

launched 'rdesktop.exe localhost'

Rdesktop popped up on the x server I'd started, and I could login into 
my XP box (with rdesktop itself running from the XP box).

This seems to be what you want.

As I see it you've got 2 areas to work on;

i) getting Rdesktop running on your server (and displaying on the xterminal)
ii) figuring out how to remotely launch rdesktop from the xterminal - 
either XDM session, or telnet.

jeb

PS: Email me to let me know if you get this going - its an idea I've 
thought of myself before now.