Terminal Services Client

Posted October 26, 2005

When using the Terminal Services Client that ships with most Linux distributions, and you’re connecting to a Windows 2003 server, be sure to use RDPv5 over RDP. RDPv5 gives you “cut and paste” functionality, which is often essential. I’m sure it does more, but I don’t care about that.

I found this out after a few minutes of cursing at the computer, and using a mix-master-mashup of ssh/scp and Samba to transfer files from the Windows machine, to a Linux box, and then back out to me in the real world.

2 Comments so far

  1. Hale on October 26th, 2005

    There’s this thing called http://ftp...

  2. mlambie on October 27th, 2005

    Who in their right mind runs an FTP server these days? Unless you like having your (or better, your clients) passwords transmitted in plain text…