rdesktop

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rdesktop
Developerrdesktop team
Initial releaseApril 4, 2001; 25 years ago (2001-04-04)
Final release
1.9.0 / October 11, 2019; 6 years ago (2019-10-11)
Repository
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    Operating systemUnix-like
    Microsoft Windows[1] (unofficial)
    TypeMicrosoft Remote Desktop Services client
    LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later

    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.

    Feature set

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    RDP5 features supported:

    • Bitmap caching
    • File system, audio, serial port and printer port redirection
    • Mappings for most international keyboards
    • Stream compression and encryption
    • Automatic authentication
    • Smartcard support
    • RemoteApp like support called "seamless" mode via Seamless RDP
    • Network Level Authentication

    Still unimplemented are:

    • Client redirection upon reconnect (of disconnected session)[2]
    • Remote Assistance requests
    • USB device redirection

    Support for the additional features available in RDP 5.1 and RDP 6 (including multi-head display spanning, window composition and console connection) have not yet been implemented, although some have been officially documented on MSDN.[3][4]

    Use

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    Rdesktop is commonly used on desktop ReactOS and Linux installations to connect to Microsoft Windows running Remote Desktop Services. There are many GUI clients, like tsclient, Gnome-RDP and KDE Remote Desktop Connection (KRDC), which are graphical front-ends to rdesktop. The program has also been integrated into several thin client Linux distributions like Thinkstation and the PC TSC project, as well as some thin client appliances.[5]

    See also

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    References

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    1. ^ windows build
    2. ^ http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5398718 [user-generated source]
    3. ^ buy rdp admin Rdesktop
    4. ^ See for example, [1], [2], [3] some documents of RDP 6.0
    5. ^ USA Admin RDP
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    • FreeRDP – a fork of rdesktop that is further developed under the Apache License
    • KRDC - KDE Remote Desktop Connection
    • Gnome-RDP - GNOME front-end for rdesktop
    • xrdp - RDP server for Unix, based on rdesktop
    • CoRD - A native Cocoa interface for the OS X port of rdesktop.
    • properJavaRDP - rdesktop-based Free Java Remote Desktop Connection Client
    • Rdesktop-Win32 - Win32 build of rdesktop
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