Monday, October 14, 2013

rdesktop tips

When connecting to Windows servers using Linux rdesktop
use the following command to connect to the windows server
rdesktop

eg rdesktop 192.168.2.100

This will open up a remote desktop session to the server

rdesktop -r disk:name=path  

eg rdesktop -r disk:home=/home/cgerada 192.168.2.100
will make your local path available under "my computer" so that you can copy files from client to server

rdesktop -g 1024x768

eg rdesktop -g 1024x768 192.168.2.100
will set your screen resolution to 1024x768

more examples


rdesktop -d domainname -u cgerada -p passw0rd  -k en-gb -a 16 -g 1024x768 -r disk:home=/home/cgerada 192.168.2.100

-d = domain name
-u = username
-p = password
-k = keyboard layout eg en-us for a us keyboard layout or en-gb for a british one
-a = amount of colours in the pallet