rdesktop woes

[Robert L Cochran]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>   
>> Paul Lemmons wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> XP Home does not support rdesktop. You must be running XP Professional.
>>>       
>> I think I need to get this statement clarified.  Windows Remote
>> Assistance works just fine to and from Windows XP Home.  Are you saying
>> that Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home use different versions
>> of the RDP?  And that rdesktop only supports the RDP version used by
>> Windows XP Pro?
>>
>> Hmmm, if that's the case, then I had better change my plans to use my
>> local windows computers to help debug my Mom's computer.   sigh
>>
>>     
>
> OK, I tried again.  This time from my laptop Linux to my VMWare Windows
> XP Pro session (102.168.38.128).  I set up a Remote Assistance request
> (is this correct?) on the Windows computer, then I tried to connect:
>
>   
>> rdesktop kjcpc
>>     
>
> and it fails in remarkably the same way.  *This* Windows is XP Pro.  I
> *MUST* be doing something fundamentally wrong here....
>
>   
Why aren't you connecting with protocol 4? It defaults to 5. There was 
an earlier thread about this, and it is from one of those that I found 
this answer, so I'm no genius; I simply research old posts and pay 
attention to the solutions others found. Let's look again at Paul 
Lemmon's example:

rdesktop -Txyznbu1 -nmybox -g1270x950 -a24 -rsound -b -4 xyznbu1
                                                                                                
^----------------------- use -b -4

Bob