Re: rdp client... Where is it?

Jeff Cave writes:

> This morning I woke up to a foot of snow on the driveway. Traffic was
> packed and barely moving. My normal procedure when something like this
> happens is to go to my home PC, load up terminal services and not
> bother heading into the office.
>
> Problem: I'm staying at my girlfriends house for a couple of days to
> babysit her cat. She doesn't have a client and I don't want to go
> installing stuff on her computer.
>
> Solution: I have my lnx-bbc disk in my briefcase, and I seem to
> remember seeing somewhere that it has a Windows Terminal Services
> Client on it.
>
> Problem: I can't find it.

That client is rdesktop, which is in the source tree but apparently
not included on the LNX-BBC 2.1 disc.  If you have a build machine,
you should be able to build net/rdesktop in STABLE, or have somebody
else create a package for you which you can then install into RAM
using garpkg.

It looks like rdesktop is pretty easy to build from source.  You can
probably compile it yourself even if you don't want to use garpkg.

The rdesktop in STABLE is 1.2.0, and the rdesktop project has released
1.3.0.

http://www.rdesktop.org/

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