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RHEL or CentOS MS remote desktop client?

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magellan

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Jul 20, 2002
I know it's a longshot but does anyone know if there are any Microsoft
remote desktop clients for RHEL or CentOS?

I'd like to get a remote desktop client to connect from my CentOS box
to a remote Windows 2003 webserver.

It'll be interesting to see how this post is formatted.
 
To access a Windows system from a Linux system, you can use "rdesktop".
 
ya rdesktop from the command line, or you can use either grdesktop (if you can find a RHEL package) or there is another frontend for rdesktop which escapes me at the moment. It can do both VNC and rdesktop links
 
Remmina is another good rdp client that also supports other remote services like VNC, and NX.
 
Amazing. You can even mount Linux directories on the remote Windows system:

-r disk:doc=/home/john/Documents,pic=/home/john/Pictures
With this option, rdesktop connects folders /home/john/Documents and /home/john/Pictures to Windows remote desktop. Open Windows Start menu and click 'My Computer' and you will see the connected folders named doc and pic.

I'd like to run this over a VPN on my 4G-LTE USB wireless modem as well, but that's probably a
bridge too far.

I wish the admin would just load a freakin' SSH server on his Windows 2003 box, because all I
really need to do is xfer text files to/from his webserver and do some editing.
 
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