[olug] windows admin from linux

[Sean Kelly]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:21:57PM -0600, Dave Thacker wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 16:40, thelarsons3 at cox.net wrote:
> > Those of you that admin Windows machines from your Linux desktop, what s/w
> > are you using to do this?  I've heard of rdesktop - is this the only game
> > in town? 
> I use rdesktop to run a session on our Windows terminal server.  
> > How well does it work for you? 
> 
> Very well.  It can be a bit of memory hog, so plan on having 512MB or better 
> in the machine.  

I agree that RDC is a good way to do it. If you are fortunate enough to
have access to an OS X machine, you should check out Microsoft's native OS
X RDC client. It supports all the cool features, such as making the local
filesystem available on the Windows machine and playing remote sounds
locally.

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/misc/rdc_update_103.xml&secid=80&ssid=10&flgnosysreq=True

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