[K12OSN] rdesktop question
Shawn Powers
spowers at inlandlakes.org
Tue Oct 26 16:53:56 UTC 2004
I'm sure there is an rdesktop list, but I dont' belong to it, so bear
with me...
Does anyone run Windows 2003 terminal services and rdesktop into it? I
have been on the phone with microsoft for 2 days about temporary
licensing and permanent TSCALs.
Finally, with no help from MS, I discovered that if I connect to the
terminal server with the -4 flag (using RDP v4) I get issued a permanent
license, but if I use the default -5 flag, I get issued a temporary,
which expires in 120 days or so. (my users started getting messages
about their licensing expiring... thankfully EVERY one of them called
me to tell me...)
Is there a way to make a call to the rdesktop program use the -4 flag by
default system wide? I know for a personal user, you can set an alias
in .bashrc, or .profile, or one of those files -- can the same be done
system wide? If so, would it still be honored if the rdesktop program
is called from within another script? Should I just wrap rdesktop into
a script that calls with with the -4 flag?
Also, what are the differences between RDP v4 and v5? Will there be
other implications for me?
Thanks for any pointers,
-Shawn
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