Until Vista arrived it was relatively straight forward to connect to microsoft server or PC's from Linux using krdc or rdesktop utilities.
Although XP and Windows 2003 can still be connected from standard yum updated versions of rdesktop, Vista doesnt work.
This is because Microsoft changed the encription and pixel levels in Vista mstsc, so to connect you need to upgrade your linux client
You normaly see the image of the vista remote PC quickly flash and disapear ( in krdc) or using rdesktop 1.4 something like
"rdesktop 192.168.1.5
ERROR: Modules len 0x108
ERROR: send: Connection reset by peer
Error Connection closed"
in Redhat RHEL5 list the current version of rdesktop installed
'yum list installedgrep rdesktop'
rdesktop.i386 1.4.1-6
if your version like above is not 1.5 or better 1.6 then you need to upgrade
go to http://www.rdesktop.org
Download the rdesktop-1.6.0.tar.gz file to /tmp
cd /tmp/rdesktop-1.6.0.
./configure
make
make install
Then run it “/usr/local/bin/rdesktop 192.168.1.5”
Vista console should now show on your Linux/rhel 5 server screen
(as long as all the usual remote settings have been made on vista remote pc, firewall 3389 enabled etc)
Have fun
Chris
IT Support London since 1990
2 comments:
Remote desktop has certainly made things easier for businesses. With RHUB’s http://www.rhubcom.com new 4-in-1 Remote Desktop, trend seems to be shifting to multi-capable solutions.
Yes I agree with this article that before Vista, it was easy to work with remote connection connecting to Linux server. Some of the advantages of using Vista for remote connection are described clearly. This would certainly help Small business IT support technicians to know the features of Vista.
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