Remote Desktop Instructions for Linux

rdesktop is a command line Remote Desktop client for Linux. It supports all features of RDP, including mapping local drives and printers to the remote computer. After installation it is invoked by typing the following into the shell:

rdesktop [options] server

A full list of options are documented in rdesktop man page, but a sample command line might look like the following:

rdesktop -g 1024x768 -a 24 -r disk:home=/home/<userid> -r disk:root=/ -r printer:<localqueue>

There is a nice GTK frontend called tsclient for rdesktop.

If accessing a Windows VCL resource from NCSU campus Linux and Solaris lab machines, rdesktop is available through the netutils locker:

add netutils