.TH RDESKTOP 1 "Januari 2001" "Manual page for rdesktop" .\" .\" 5th Januari 2001 .\" Man page author: .\" Hugo Trippaers .\" .SH NAME .I rdesktop \- terminal server client for Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 .SH SYNOPSIS .B rdesktop \-n [options] server .br .SH DESCRIPTION .I rdesktop acts as a window terminal services client for Windows NT terminal servers and Windows 2000 terminal services either in administration or licenced mode. rdesktop implements the RDP version 4 protcol as used by Windows NT4 Terminalserver. Various mailinglist members wrote patches for rdesktop which implement RDP version 5. RDP 5 is used by Windows 2000 Terminal Services. At this time the patches are not merged in the main codebase but distributed seperately. See the links section for URLS. .SH OPTIONS .TP .BR "-u --user" The username for authentication on the terminal server, together with -p this can be used for autologon. On win2k the username is prefilled on the username box. .TP .BR "-d --domain" The domain to to which the user belongs. Use -u user@domain for win2k servers. .TP .BR "-s --shell" The startup shell for the user. Use this to force the user to start a specific shell of program after startup. .TP .BR "-c --workingdir" The current working directory for the user. Often used in combination with -s to setup a fixed environment for the user after logon. .TP .BR "-p --password" The password to authenticate with, used in combination with -u for autologon. WARNING: the -p option will be visible to all users when then use tools like ps. Use -p - to make rdesktop request a password at startup. .TP .BR "-n --clientname" The name of the current machine rdesktop is running on. Usually the hostname (without the domain). .TP .BR "-k --keycode" The keyboard layout for the rdesktop session. i.e. us, is or nl .TP .BR "-K --vmkeys" By default the keybindings of the windowmanager will be ignored when the rdesktop window is in focus. Use this setting to keep the windowmanager keybindings. .TP .BR "-F --fullscreen" Enable fullscreen mode. The -w and -h flag will be ignored when using -f, rdesktop will get the current height and width from the current desktop. .TP .BR "-D --bpp" Rdesktop should detect the default screen depth, and try and run on that. The -D switch is only there so that the user can override the default bits-per-pixel setting. .TP .BR "-t --port" This option is used to make rdesktop connect to another rdp port on the remote machine. The default is 3389 as used by W2K and NT4 Terminal Server. .TP .BR "-T --bs" This option selects the backing-store method. The options are x,p and n. .TP .BR " --bs x" Use the Xservers backing-store, but no internal pixmap. If the Xserver does not provide a backing-store none will be used at all, this acts as the --bs n switch. This method is the fastest since the Xserver can do optimizations in the hardware. .TP .BR " --bs n" No backingstore. This is slow but saves some memory. .TP .BR " --bs p" This is the default setting, use an internal pixmap. .TP .BR "-e --no-enc" Do not use encryption, this is only for people who are not allowed to use encryption in Windows products. If you live in France you probably need this switch. .TP .BR "-l --no-license" Do not request license. This flag is not used when connecting to Windows 2000 Terminal Services. .TP .BR "-v --privcolmap" Use a private color map, this is useful when running X in 8bpp mode. .TP .BR "\-4 \-\-nt4tsc" Enable NT4 compatibility mode, this might be needed to connect to NT4 Terminal Servers. .TP .BR "\-N \-\-new\-kbcode" If you're not using a pc keyboard this may fix some of your key problems. This option should be used together with the \-k option. .TP .BR "\-V \-\-VNC" use a VNC viewer. .TP .BR "--no-bitmapcache" Force bitmap updates. .TP .BR "--no-bitmapcomp" Disable bitmap compression. .TP .BR "--no-desktopcache" Disable the use of the desktop cache. .TP .BR "--no-motionevents" Disable the sending of motion events. .TP .BR "--no-systembeep" Do not forward the system beep from the terminal session to the Xserver. .TP .SH EXAMPLES .PP .br Connect to a Windows 2000 Server called asp from a box called tux. .br \fI% rdesktop \-n tux asp.mydomain.com .PP .br Connect to a Windows 2000 Server called asp and automagically start Word. Rdesktop will request a password before starting the session. .br \fI% rdesktop -n tux -u worduser -p - -s winword.exe asp.mydomain.com .br .PP .br Connect to a Windows NT4 Terminal server .br \fI% rdesktop -n tux -4 terminal.mydomain.com .br .PP .br \fI% rdesktop -n tux -u aspuser@asp.mydomain.com -p - -P 90 asp.mydomain.com .br .PP .SH "RETURN VALUES" None are defined (yet) .SH LINKS Main website of rdesktop .br \fIhttp://www.rdesktop.org .LP The unified patch can be found here .br \fIhttp://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop .LP The mailinglist .br rdesktop@cifs.org .LP .SH BUGS Probably too many to list here. We suggest you visit the website at http://www.rdesktop.org and take a look at the mailinglist archives to find out about the latest news, bugs and fixes. .SH VERSION This manual page documents version 1.0.0/patch 19-4-2 .SH AUTHOR rdesktop is written by Matt Chapman .br .LP unified patch by Peter Bystrom .br .LP manual page by Hugo Trippaers .br .br .SH THANKS Thanks to all the mailinglist members for their contributions to rdesktop. .PP