Connect to Windows Remote Desktop through rdesktop in CentOS

As we all know, Microsoft Windows provides a Remote Desktop. the default port of this service is 3389, which enables users to remotely log on to the system for system management or run various applications as terminal servers. To connect to Windows Remote Desktop, you must install the corresponding software (tsclient) on the Windows client ). If you are a Windows Server administrator, you must have used this tool because Remote Desktop can greatly facilitate remote server maintenance by the system administrator. In Linux

As we all know, Microsoft Windows provides a Remote Desktop system. the default port of this service is 3389, allows users to remotely log on to the system for system management or run various applications as terminal servers.

To connect to Windows Remote Desktop, you must install the corresponding software (tsclient) on the Windows client ). If you are a Windows Server administrator, you must have used this tool because Remote Desktop can greatly facilitate remote server maintenance by the system administrator. In Linux, you can also use a free tool rdesktop to connect to Windows Remote Desktop.

Next we will share with you how to use rdesktop to connect to remote desktop on the Linux (CentOS) system.

1) install rdesktop

[Root @ server ~] # Yum-y install rdesktop

2) connect to Windows Remote Desktop

[Root @ server ~] # Rdesktop-a 16 192.168.1.96: 33389-u administrator

PS: The windows Remote Desktop port has been changed to Port 33389.
In this way, you can easily access Windows Remote Desktop on a Linux (CentOS) system.

The following describes the detailed parameters of rdesktop:

When no parameters are attached to the rdesktop command, the rdesktop help information is displayed; Rdesktop syntax: Rdesktop [options] server [: port] Parameter description -U user account (ID) used to log on to Remote Desktop) -D domain name -S shell -C working directory -P user password used to log on to Remote Desktop -N specifies the machine name of the client. -K -G -F full screen display mode -B -L - -B -E -E -M -C -D -K -S -T -N -X -A sets the screen color depth of the Remote Desktop. for example,-a 16 indicates that the screen color is used. -Z: enable RDP compression -X -P -0 -4 -5