Once you have saved the settings to a file, you can quickly connect to a Windows Computer from a Terminal window instead of running tsclient from the GUI. Once the settings have been configured, you can save it as a file and open it when you need to connect to the server. Just as you can save configuration settings on a Windows Terminal Server Client, the same can done with tsclient by setting options in the Dislpay, Local Resources, Programs, or Performance tabs.

Once connected you can logon to the Windows Computer as normal: Access the Linux terminal on Windows, develop cross-platform applications, and manage IT infrastructure without leaving Windows. To quickly connect to a Windows Computer, just enter the hostname in the Computer field and click Connect at the bottom of tsclient. Now that tsclient is installed, you can easily open tsclient by typing tsclient at the Terminal prompt (yes it looks exactly as the Terminal Server client on Windows!) If tsclient is not installed, you can install it by executing the following command from a Terminal window: If tsclient is installed you should see the output of the command as:

To verify it is installed simply enter the following command in a Terminal window: With Ubuntu, tsclient is installed by default. To connect to your Linux computers RDP service from a Windows computer, select Start Programs Accessories Communications Remote Desktop Connection. Tsclient is a GNOME program for remotely accessing Microsoft Windows NT/2000/2003 Terminal Services and XP Remote Desktop Sharing over RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol).

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