• rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Remote Desktop Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's Windows desktop. rdesktop is known to work with Windows versions such as NT 4 Terminal Server, 2000, XP, 2003, 2003 R2, Vista, 2008, 7, and 2008 R2.

• rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window System, and other ports should be fairly straightforward.rdesktop is released under the GNU Public Licence (GPL), version 3.

• The latest stable version of rdesktop is 1.8.0. This release includes features regarding authentication and security such as Network Level Authentication (NLA) which adds support for SSL/TLSv1 connections and kerberos server authentication.

• Connection sharing for SeamlessRDP which will use an existing connection to a terminal server when starting additional applications. This was done implementing inter process communication (IPC) for rdesktop where a master process is controlled by slave processes. Be aware that the command line arguments related to SeamlessRDP is changed.

• Smart card single-sign-on functionality for both plain RDP and CredSSP using pin passed as argument to rdesktop.

You can download the Stable versions from here.

• rdesktop 1.8.0:Source (313 KB)

• rdesktop 1.7.1:Source (298 KB)

• rdesktop 1.7.0:Source (297 KB)

Or use Linux command:

 $sudo apt-get update
 $sudo apt-get install rdesktop

• Firstly, you must know the computer IP which you want to control.For Example:

 $rdesktop 192.168.1.1

• If you are successful,you will see such window.

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Module   :    sesman-Xvnc
username :    remote host username
password :    remote host password