Rdesktop

[Michael S. Dunsavage]

KDE has a really nice front end under the networking menu under the KDE 
button.   It's really easy.  Put in the host and if it requires a 
password and wa-la.l

Brian D. McGrew wrote:

> (I get version numbers confused very easily but) I think it's in 
> Fedora Core 1 or Core 2, there is a pretty nice front end for 
> rdesktop.  I've used it before.  But I have a shell script that does 
> it for me.  I'll attached the script for your use.
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> #
> # Make sure we have all the required parameters.
> #
> [ "$1" = "" ] && {
>     echo "USAGE: $0 servername"
>     exit
> }
>
> #
> # The remote server.
> #
> SERVER=$1
>
> #
> # Set the size of the display.
> #
> RDGEOM=800x600
> XWI=xwininfo
> if [ -x /usr/openwin/bin/xwininfo ];
> then
>     XWI=/usr/openwin/bin/xwininfo
> elif [ -x /usr/bin/X11/xwininfo ];
> then
>      XWI=/usr/bin/X11/xwininfo
> elif [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xwininfo ];
> then
>     XWI=/usr/X11R6/bin/xwininfo
> fi
>
> if [ -x $XWI ];
> then
>     WIDTH=`$XWI -root | grep Width |\
>         awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sed -e 's/ //g'`
>     HEIGHT=`$XWI -root | grep Height |\
>         awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sed -e 's/ //g'`
>
>     if [ $WIDTH -gt 1280 -a $HEIGHT -gt 1024 ];
>     then
>     RDGEOM=1280x1024
>     elif [ $WIDTH -gt 1152 -a $HEIGHT -gt 900 ];
>     then
>     RDGEOM=1152x900
>     elif [ $WIDTH -gt 1024 -a $HEIGHT -gt 768 ];
>     then
>     RDGEOM=1024x768
>     elif [ $WIDTH -gt 800 -a $HEIGHT -gt 600 ];
>     then
>     RDGEOM=800x600
>     else
>     RDGEOM=640x480
>     fi
> else
>     echo "Can't find xwininfo, using 800x600 resolution."
> fi
>
> #
> # Figure out the username.  Should be the same as Unix login name.
> # If not, you'll need to fix this to be USER=<Your Windows Login Name>.
> # Regex it and convert the first charicter to uppercase (Windows likes 
> it)
> #
> set `whoami | sed -e 's/\(.\)\(.*\)/\1 \2/'`
> USERNAME=`echo $1 | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`$2
>
> #
> # Where do we want the output from rdesktop sent?
> #
> OUTPUT_DEVICE="/dev/null"
>
> #
> # Find the program, make sure it exists and execute it.
> #
> PROGRAM=/usr/bin/rdesktop
> [ -x /usr/local/bin/rdesktop ] && PROGRAM=/usr/local/bin/rdesktop
>
> if [ -x $PROGRAM ];
> then
>     $PROGRAM -u $USERNAME -g $RDGEOM $SERVER >> $OUTPUT_DEVICE &
> else
>     echo "Can't find $PROGRAM executable!"
> fi
>
> #
> # We're done.
> #
> exit
>
>
> -brian
>
> Brian D. McGrew        { brian at doubledimension.com || 
> pacemakertaker at yahoo.com }
> -- 
> > YOU!  Off my planet!
> On Sep 22, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Michael Scully wrote:
>
>> Greetings fellow penguin heads:
>>
>>     I'm using rdesktop 1.2 that comes with Enterprise 3, because I need
>> to manage other Win machines around the network.  This works great, 
>> but you
>> have to specify the host you want on the command line.  I was hoping 
>> to not
>> have to have a desktop full of separate shortcuts for every host I 
>> want to
>> attach to.  Is there no front end to the rdesktop that lets you choose
>> hosts, akin to how M$ lets you choose when you use their RDP client?  
>> Does
>> 1.3 work better in this regard?  I couldn't find documentation online 
>> about
>> it.
>>
>>     I suppose I could write a shell script launcher that prompted for
>> this and then invoked rdesktop.
>>
>> Scully
>>
>>
>>
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