Rdesktop Explained

rdesktop
Screenshot Size:	200px
Developer:	rdesktop team
Latest Release Version:	1.9.0
Operating System:	Unix-like Microsoft Windowswindows build (unofficial)
Genre:	Microsoft Remote Desktop Services client
License:	GPL-3.0-or-later
Website:	www.rdesktop.org

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

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)^[1]
• 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.^{[2] [3]}

Use

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.^[4]

See also

• FreeRDP – a fork of rdesktop that is further developed under the Apache License
• xrdp – an implementation of a server software for RDP
• Comparison of remote desktop software

External links

• rdesktop website
• 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

Notes and References

1. http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5398718
2. https://planetrdp.com/ buy rdp
3. See for example, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc241682(PROT.10).aspx, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc241877(PROT.10).aspx, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc241551(PROT.10).aspx some documents of RDP 6.0
4. https://bestbuyrdp.com/usa-admin-rdp/ USA Admin RDP