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X2Go Client can be used to connect to Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers. There are two modes available: X2Go-proxied RDP support and DirectRDP support.
With X2Go you can launch any application hosted on a Linux-based X2Go Server. These applications can run inside a full desktop session launched on a remote X2Go Server or these applications can run independently and seamlessly integrate into your local desktop session (e.g. see the Published Applications documentation).
An RDP session is a remote session on an MS Windows machine. With an RDP client application like the 'rdesktop
' command line utility, you can connect to MS Windows desktops and launch remote sessions on that Windows machine from a Linux-based desktop.
An X2Go-proxied RDP session now is an RDP session that gets launched inside an X2Go session.
If X2Go Client is used for proxying an RDP session, the session start up goes like this:
'rdesktop
' is installed'rdesktop
' command inside this session (with a special set of parameters)'rdesktop
' RDP client connects to the MS Windows machine, starts/resumes an RDP session thereThere are some benefits gained from this approach compared to direct RDP session setups.
In X2Go Client's session profile manager, select the following parameters:
'-u <windows-username> -d <windows-domain-name>
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X2Go Client's DirectRDP feature was sponsored by the Rohloff AG back in 2012.