rdesktop and Vista -- no fun [SOLVED]

[Steven Stern]

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On 01/10/2008 08:50 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
| Has anyone been able to connect to Vista machine with rdesktop?  I just
| installed a Vista machine at work and I'm unable to access it from home
| with rdesktop.  I've found a few suggestions and modified to source code
| for version 1.5 per
|
http://blog.beuchelt.org/CommentView,guid,2e8c092f-da8b-4321-a43a-96c8ddb25908.aspx,

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| but with no good results.
|
| Suggestions (other than "Hey, don't use Vista") are welcome.

Thanks to Mikael Schmidt on the rdesktop-users list.  To connect to
Vista and, possibly, Windows Server 2008, one must use protocol level 4,
not the default protocol level 5.  Thus, the command should be

~  rdesktop -4 [other params]

- --

~  Steve
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