rdesktop
Sign in to saverdesktop 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-3.0-or-later), and is available for Linux and BSD as well as for Microsoft Windows.
Key facts
- Software.name
- rdesktop
- Software.screenshot
- Rdesktop-ON WIN 95.jpg
- Software.screenshot size
- 200px
- Software.caption
- rdesktop connected to a Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition host
- Software.developer
- rdesktop team
- Software.latest release version
- 1.9.0
- Software.operating system
- Unix-likeMicrosoft Windowswindows build (unofficial)
- Software.genre
- Microsoft Remote Desktop Services client
- Software.license
- GPL-3.0-or-later
- Software.discontinued
- yes
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol Client
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Source code
Please, beware that this project is no longer maintained and hadn't received a patch in many years. There are reported security vulnerabilities, yet those haven't been reviewed. rdesktop uses a GNU-style build procedure. Typically all that is necessary to install rdesktop is the following: The smart-card support module uses PCSC-lite. You should use PCSC-lite 1.2.9 or later. To enable smart-card support in the rdesktop add --enable-smartcard to the configure line. If you have retrieved a snapshot of the rdesktop source, you will first need to run ./bootstrap in order to generate the build infrastructure. This is not necessary for release versions of rdesktop. where server is the name of the Terminal Services machine. If you receive "Connection refused", this probably means that the server does not have Terminal Services enabled, or there is a firewall blocking access. You can also specify a number of options on the command line. These are listed in the rdesktop manual page (run man rdesktop ).
Excerpt from the source-code README · 1,684 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.rdesktop.org
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- software version identifier
- 1.9.0
- source code repository URL
- github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop
- inception
- 2001-04-04
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5 sectionsContents
- Feature set
- Use
- See also
- References
- External links
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-3.0-or-later), 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. 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.