RDESKTOP(1)                                           RDESKTOP(1)



NAME
       rdesktop - terminal server client for Windows NT4 and Win-
       dows 2000

SYNOPSIS
       rdesktop -n <hostname> [options] server

DESCRIPTION
       rdesktop acts as a window  terminal  services  client  for
       Windows NT terminal servers and Windows 2000 terminal ser-
       vices 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 dis-
       tributed seperately. See the links section for URLS.

OPTIONS
       -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.

       -d --domain
              The  domain  to  to  which the user belongs. Use -u
              user@domain for win2k servers.

       -s --shell
              The startup shell for the user. Use this  to  force
              the user to start a specific shell of program after
              startup.

       -c --workingdir
              The current working directory for the  user.  Often
              used  in combination with -s to setup a fixed envi-
              ronment for the user after logon.

       -p --password
              The password to authenticate with, used in combina-
              tion  with -u for autologon. WARNING: the -p <pass-
              word> option will be visible to all users when then
              use  tools  like  ps.  Use  -p  -  to make rdesktop
              request a password at startup.

       -n --clientname
              The name of the current machine rdesktop is running
              on. Usually the hostname (without the domain).

       -k --keycode
              The  keyboard layout for the rdesktop session. i.e.
              us, is or nl

       -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.

       -F --fullscreen
              Enable  fullscreen mode. The -w and -h flag will be
              ignored when using -f, rdesktop will get  the  cur-
              rent height and width from the current desktop.

       -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.

       -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.

       -T --bs
              This option selects the backing-store  method.  The
              options are x,p and n.

         --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.

         --bs n
              No  backingstore.  This is slow but saves some mem-
              ory.

         --bs p
              This  is  the  default  setting,  use  an  internal
              pixmap.

       -e --no-enc
              Do  not use encryption, this is only for people who
              are not allowed to use encryption in Windows  prod-
              ucts.  If you live in France you probably need this
              switch.

       -l --no-license
              Do not request license. This flag is not used  when
              connecting to Windows 2000 Terminal Services.

       -v --privcolmap
              Use  a  private color map, this is useful when run-
              ning X in 8bpp mode.

       -4 --nt4tsc
              Enable NT4 compatibility mode, this might be needed
              to connect to NT4 Terminal Servers.

       -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.

       -V --VNC
              use a VNC viewer.

       --no-bitmapcache
              Force bitmap updates.

       --no-bitmapcomp
              Disable bitmap compression.

       --no-desktopcache
              Disable the use of the desktop cache.

       --no-motionevents
              Disable the sending of motion events.

       --no-systembeep
              Do  not  forward  the system beep from the terminal
              session to the Xserver.


       EXAMPLES

       Connect to a Windows 2000 Server called  asp  from  a  box
       called tux.
       % rdesktop -n tux asp.mydomain.com

       Connect  to a Windows 2000 Server called asp and automagi-
       cally start Word. Rdesktop will request a password  before
       starting the session.
       %  rdesktop  -n  tux  -u  worduser  -p  -  -s  winword.exe
       asp.mydomain.com

       Connect to a Windows NT4 Terminal server
       % rdesktop -n tux -4 terminal.mydomain.com

       % rdesktop -n tux -u aspuser@asp.mydomain.com -p -  -P  90
       asp.mydomain.com


RETURN VALUES
       None are defined (yet)

LINKS
       Main website of rdesktop
       http://www.rdesktop.org

       The unified patch can be found here
       http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop

       The mailinglist
       rdesktop@cifs.org


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.

VERSION
       This manual page documents version 1.0.0/patch 19-4-2

AUTHOR
       rdesktop is written by Matt Chapman
       <matthewc@cse.unsw.edu.au>

       unified patch by Peter Bystrom
       <peter.bystrom@ub.oru.se>

       manual page by Hugo Trippaers
       <spark@ision.nl>

THANKS
       Thanks to all the mailinglist members for their  contribu-
       tions to rdesktop.









Manual page for rdesktop   Januari 2001               RDESKTOP(1)
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