rdesktop woes

[max]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 02:53 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> 	I can't get rdesktop to work right on my Linux computers.  None of the
>> 3 work right.  The symptom is the same on each:  a window opens and then
>> closes too fast to see anything in it.  I have verified that each
>> Windows XP machine I am trying to connect to works between themselves.
>> I can open Remote Desktop sessions (using the RAIncident files that
>> Windows XP creates) between XP machines, but not from Fedora machines to
>> XP.  I have tried on FC6, FC7, FC8.  No dice.  Does anyone have any
>> clues as to what might be wrong?  I installed rdesktop-1.5.0-2 for fc6
>> and fc7, and 1.5.0-4 for fc8.
>>
>>     
>
> Weird.
> I'm using rdesktop under F1...F8 and RHEL/CentOS to connect to Windows
> 2K/XP and 2K3 machines for years now.
> I've got SELinux enabled with iptables in block-all/exclude-some mode.
>
> Can you start rdesktop under strace and post the output ?
>
> - Gilboa
>
>   
The problem is that he is under the impression that Remote Desktop and 
Remote Assistance are the same.
They are not the same.

-Max