[olug] windows admin from linux

Jay Swackhamer Jay at RebootTheUser.com
Thu Dec 1 12:58:56 UTC 2005


To conenct to rdesktop/rdesktop5/vnc/xdmcp/ica you can use 'tsclient' on
linux.

http://www.gnomepro.com/tsclient


> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:21:57PM -0600, Dave Thacker wrote:
>> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 16:40, thelarsons3 at cox.net wrote:
>> > Those of you that admin Windows machines from your Linux desktop, what
>> s/w
>> > are you using to do this?  I've heard of rdesktop - is this the only
>> game
>> > in town?
>> I use rdesktop to run a session on our Windows terminal server.
>> > How well does it work for you?
>>
>> Very well.  It can be a bit of memory hog, so plan on having 512MB or
>> better
>> in the machine.
>
> I agree that RDC is a good way to do it. If you are fortunate enough to
> have access to an OS X machine, you should check out Microsoft's native OS
> X RDC client. It supports all the cool features, such as making the local
> filesystem available on the Windows machine and playing remote sounds
> locally.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/misc/rdc_update_103.xml&secid=80&ssid=10&flgnosysreq=True
>
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