NAME¶
rdesktop - Remote Desktop Protocol client
SYNOPSIS¶
rdesktop [options] server[:port]
DESCRIPTION¶
rdesktop is a client for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), used in a number
of Microsoft products including Windows NT Terminal Server, Windows 2000
Server, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server.
OPTIONS¶
- -u <username>
- Username for authentication on the server.
- -d <domain>
- Domain for authentication.
- -s <shell>
- Startup shell for the user - starts a specific application instead of
Explore. If SeamlessRDP is enabled this is the application which i started
in seamless mode.
- -c <directory>
- The initial working directory for the user. Often used in combination with
-s to set up a fixed login environment.
- -p <password>
- The password to authenticate with. Note that this may have no effect if
"Always prompt for password" is enabled on the server. WARNING:
if you specify a password on the command line it may be visible to other
users when they use tools like ps. Use -p - to make rdesktop request a
password at startup (from standard input).
- -n <hostname>
- Client hostname. Normally rdesktop automatically obtains the hostname of
the client.
- -k <keyboard-map>
- Keyboard layout to emulate. This requires a corresponding keymap file to
be installed. The standard keymaps provided with rdesktop follow the
RFC1766 naming scheme: a language code followed by a country code if
necessary - e.g. en-us, en-gb, de, fr, sv, etc.
The default keyboard map depends on the current locale (LC_* and LANG
environment variables). If the current locale is unknown, the default
keyboard map is en-us (a US English keyboard).
The keyboard maps are file names, which means that they are case sensitive.
The standard keymaps are all in lowercase.
The keyboard maps are searched relative to the directories
$HOME/.rdesktop/keymaps, KEYMAP_PATH (specified at build time), and
$CWD/keymaps, in this order. The keyboard-map argument can also be an
absolute filename.
The special value `none' can be used instead of a keyboard map. In this
case, rdesktop will guess the scancodes from the X11 event key codes using
an internal mapping method. This method only supports the basic
alphanumeric keys and may not work properly on all platforms so its use is
discouraged.
- -g <geometry>
- Desktop geometry (WxH). If geometry is the special word
"workarea", the geometry will be fetched from the extended
window manager hints property _NET_WORKAREA, from the root window. The
geometry can also be specified as a percentage of the whole screen, e.g.
"-g 80%".
If the specified geometry depends on the screen size, and the screen size is
changed, rdesktop will automatically reconnect using the new screen size.
This requires that rdesktop has been compiled with RandR support.
- -i
- Use password as smartcard pin. If a valid user certificate is matched in
smart card reader the password passed with p argument is used as pin for
the smart card. This feature also requires that smart card redirection is
used using r scard argument.
- -f
- Enable fullscreen mode. This overrides the window manager and causes the
rdesktop window to fully cover the current screen. Fullscreen mode can be
toggled at any time using Ctrl-Alt-Enter.
- -b
- Force the server to send screen updates as bitmaps rather than using
higher-level drawing operations.
- -t
- Disable use of remote control. This will disable features like seamless
connection sharing.
- -A <seamlessrdpshell>
- Enable SeamlessRDP by specifying the path to seamless rdp shell. In this
mode, rdesktop creates a X11 window for each window on the server side.
This mode requires the SeamlessRDP server side component, which is
available from http://www.cendio.com/seamlessrdp/.
When using this option, you should normally specify a startup shell which
launches the desired application through SeamlessRDP.
Example: rdesktop -A 'c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe' -s 'notepad'
mywts.domain.com
Any subsequential call to the above commandline example will make use of the
seamless connection sharing feature which spawns another notepad in the
current connection to the specified server and then exit.
- -B
- Use the BackingStore of the Xserver instead of the integrated one in
rdesktop.
- -e
- Disable encryption. This option is only needed (and will only work) if you
have a French version of NT TSE.
- -E
- Disable encryption from client to server. This sends an encrypted login
packet, but everything after this is unencrypted (including interactive
logins).
- -m
- Do not send mouse motion events. This saves bandwidth, although some
Windows applications may rely on receiving mouse motion.
- -C
- Use private colourmap. This will improve colour accuracy on an 8-bit
display, but rdesktop will appear in false colour when not focused.
- -D
- Hide window manager decorations, by using MWM hints.
- -K
- Do not override window manager key bindings. By default rdesktop attempts
to grab all keyboard input when it is in focus.
- -S <button size>
- Enable single application mode. This option can be used when running a
single, maximized application (via -s). When the minimize button of the
windows application is pressed, the rdesktop window is minimized instead
of the remote application. The maximize/restore button is disabled. For
this to work, you must specify the correct button size, in pixels. The
special word "standard" means 18 pixels.
- -T <title>
- Sets the window title. The title must be specified using an UTF-8
string.
- -N
- Enable numlock syncronization between the Xserver and the remote RDP
session. This is useful with applications that looks at the numlock state,
but might cause problems with some Xservers like Xvnc.
- -X <windowid>
- Embed rdesktop-window in another window. The windowid is expected to be
decimal or hexadecimal (prefixed by 0x).
- -a <bpp>
- Sets the colour depth for the connection (8, 15, 16, 24 or 32). More than
8 bpp are only supported when connecting to Windows XP (up to 16 bpp) or
newer. Note that the colour depth may also be limited by the server
configuration. The default value is the depth of the root window.
- -z
- Enable compression of the RDP datastream.
- -x <experience>
- Changes default bandwidth performance behaviour for RDP5. By default only
theming is enabled, and all other options are disabled (corresponding to
modem (56 Kbps)). Setting experience to b[roadband] enables menu
animations and full window dragging. Setting experience to l[an] will also
enable the desktop wallpaper. Setting experience to m[odem] disables all
(including themes). Experience can also be a hexidecimal number containing
the flags.
- -P
- Enable caching of bitmaps to disk (persistent bitmap caching). This
generally improves performance (especially on low bandwidth connections)
and reduces network traffic at the cost of slightly longer startup and
some disk space. (10MB for 8-bit colour, 20MB for 15/16-bit colour, 30MB
for 24-bit colour and 40MB for 32-bit colour sessions)
- -r <device>
- Enable redirection of the specified device on the client, such that it
appears on the server. Note that the allowed redirections may be
restricted by the server configuration.
Following devices are currently supported:
- -r comport:<comport>=<device>,...
- Redirects serial devices on your client to the server. Note that if you
need to change any settings on the serial device(s), do so with an
appropriate tool before starting rdesktop. In most OSes you would use
stty. Bidirectional/Read support requires Windows XP or newer. In Windows
2000 it will create a port, but it's not seamless, most shell programs
will not work with it.
- -r disk:<sharename>=<path>,...
- Redirects a path to the share \\tsclient\<sharename> on the server
(requires Windows XP or newer). The share name is limited to 8
characters.
- -r lptport:<lptport>=<device>,...
- Redirects parallel devices on your client to the server.
Bidirectional/Read support requires Windows XP or newer. In Windows 2000
it will create a port, but it's not seamless, most shell programs will not
work with it.
- -r printer:<printername>[=<driver>],...
- Redirects a printer queue on the client to the server. The
<printername> is the name of the queue in your local system.
<driver> defaults to a simple PS-driver unless you specify one. Keep
in mind that you need a 100% match in the server environment, or the
driver will fail. The first printer on the command line will be set as
your default printer.
- -r sound:[local|off|remote]
- Redirects sound generated on the server to the client. "remote"
only has any effect when you connect to the console with the -0 option.
(Requires Windows XP or newer).
- -r lspci
- Activates the lspci channel, which allows the server to enumerate the
clients PCI devices. See the file lspci-channel.txt in the documentation
for more information.
- -r scard[:<Scard Name>=<Alias Name>[;<Vendor
Name>][,...]]
- Enables redirection of one or more smart-cards. You can provide static
name binding between linux and windows. To do this you can use optional
parameters as described: <Scard Name> - device name in Linux/Unix
enviroment, <Alias Name> - device name shown in Windows enviroment
<Vendor Name> - optional device vendor name. For list of examples
run rdesktop without parameters.
- -r clipboard:[off|PRIMARYCLIPBOARD|CLIPBOARD]
- Enable clipboard redirection. 'PRIMARYCLIPBOARD' looks at both PRIMARY and
CLIPBOARD when sending data to server. 'CLIPBOARD' looks at only
CLIPBOARD.
- -0
- Attach to the console of the server (requires Windows Server 2003 or
newer).
- -4
- Use RDP version 4.
- -5
- Use RDP version 5 (default).
CredSSP Smartcard options¶
- --sc-csp-name <name>
- Specify the CSP (Crypto Service Provider) to use on the windows side for
the smartcard authentication. CSP is the driver for your smartcard and it
seems like this is required to be specified for CredSSP authentication.
For swedish NetID the following CSP name is used; "Net iD -
CSP".
- --sc-container-name <name>
- Specify the container name, usally this is the username for default
container and it seems like this is required to be specified for CredSSP
authentication.
- --sc-reader-name <name>
- Specify the reader name to be used to prevent the pin code being sent to
wrong card if there are several readers.
- --sc-card-name <name>
- Specify the card name for example; "Telia EID IP5a".
EXIT VALUES¶
- 0
- RDP session terminated normally
- 1
- Server initiated disconnect (also returned for logoff by XP joined to a
domain)
- 2
- Server initiated logoff
- 3
- Server idle timeout reached
- 4
- Server logon timeout reached
- 5
- The session was replaced
- 6
- The server is out of memory
- 7
- The server denied the connection
- 8
- The server denied the connection for security reason
- 9
- The user cannot connect to the server due to insufficient access
privileges
- 10
- The server does not accept saved user credentials and requires that the
user enter their credentials for each connection
- 11
- Disconnect initiated by administration tool
- 12
- Disconnect initiated by user
- 16
- Internal licensing error
- 17
- No license server available
- 18
- No valid license available
- 19
- Invalid licensing message
- 20
- Hardware id doesn't match software license
- 21
- Client license error
- 22
- Network error during licensing protocol
- 23
- Licensing protocol was not completed
- 24
- Incorrect client license enryption
- 25
- Can't upgrade license
- 26
- The server is not licensed to accept remote connections
- 62
- The local client window was closed
- 63
- Some other, unknown error occured
- 64
- Command line usage error
- 69
- A service or resource (such as memory) is unavailable
- 70
- An internal software error has been detected
- 71
- Operating system error
- 76
- Protocol error or unable to connect to remote host.
LINKS¶
Main website of rdesktop
http://www.rdesktop.org/