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Remote Desktop Instructions for Linux

Rdesktop is a command line Remote Desktop client for Linux. It supports all the features of Remote Desktop provided by Microsoft.  After installation, the client is started from the shell as follows:

rdesktop [options] server

A full list of options is documented in the rdesktop main page.  An example shell command might be as follows:

rdesktop -g 1024X768 -a 24 -r disk:home=/user/bin/<userid> printer:<localqueue>