[nycbug-talk] RDesktop

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 7, 2005, at 8:24 PM, Brant I. Stevens wrote:

> On 5/7/05 2:55 PM, "Kevin Reiter" <tux at penguinnetwerx.net> wrote:
>
>> George wrote:
>>
>>> I realize that this list should just be a 'hey, look what i found in
>>> FBSD ports', but that's precisely what I wanted to say. . .
>>>
>>> http://www.rdesktop.org/
>>>
>>> Great application, lots of configurability.
>>>
>>> Just what you need if you manage Windows servers. . .
>>>
>>
>> I've been using rdesktop since about 1998-ish, both in Linux (not  
>> so much
>> since I became a FreeBSD convert :) and FreeBSD.  It's an awesome  
>> tool to
>> have in your toolbox, and the setup and configuration or extremely  
>> easy.
>> You can even make shell scripts for each server you want to  
>> connect to,
>> etc. etc. blah blah
>>
>> If anyone has any questions about it, feel free to ping me on them.
>>
> It's great on the Mac as well...  If you use the Microsoft-supplied  
> client,
> you can only connect to one server at a time. >=\

If you want to connect to multiple servers with the Microsoft client  
on Mac OS X, just make a copy of the application for each concurrent  
connection you need to make and run them.  It's dumb but it works.

-bob