Sometimes you find yourself in a position whereby you have to connect to windows from your linux box, well there are various ways to achieve this and with this post we are going to explore rdesktop which works for most of the windows operating system based on the NT platform. This includes Windows XP , 2000 server , windows NT , Windows 2008 and Windows Vista.
You can install it by compiling from source or in my case I installed it as a rpm (suse 10.3), you can choose which ever method suits you best.
Before you try rdesktop please make sure your windows box is setup to accept remote connections. You can confirm this by accessing control panel->system->remote(tab)->remote desktop and select the checkbox there.
Now Lets begin, We first gonna connect to our windows box with minimal settings…
rdesktop -usonny -pmypass 192.168.1.24
This example will connect to your machine at ip address 192.168.1.24 and will login automatically.
Lets make it full screen
rdesktop -ffull -usonny -pmypass 192.168.1.24
Lets Connect to a windows machine on a domain network
rdesktop -ffull -usonny -pmypass -dmydomain 192.168.1.24
There are many other settings you can set for e.g. keyboard layout , sound card redirection , clipboard redirection , printer redirection and etc…
This post is meant to be a quick guide on using rdesktop you can find out more information and other config settings by using the man pages
man rdektop
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