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Chapter 5. Remote Desktop Access

The Terminal Server Client serves as a graphical interface to the command line programs

vncviewer

and

rdesktop

, and can be accessed from the command line using the

tsclient

command.

Terminal Server Client is a GNOME 2 application for remotely accessing Microsoft Windows

NT/2000  Terminal Services and XP Remote Desktop Sharing  using the Remote Desktop Pro 

tocol (RDP). It also supports connections using other remote desktop methods such as vnc, Xnest, and

the Citrix ICA  client.

5.3.1. Connecting to a Remote Linux Desktop

The minimal configuration for a user named "sam" connecting to a Linux desktop named

linux.example.com

using the VNC protocol is shown in Figure 5 3.