Thank you all very very much for all the responces. It worked.
FYI,
Copied (Win 2000)a fresh rdesktop-1.1.0.tar.gz to a DOS floppy
On Linux (as root), mounted the floppy (mount -t vfat /dev/fd0
/mnt/floppydos)
Using the GUI (low comfort zone with cp), I coppied (copy and paste) the
file to /tmp/rdesktop/rdesktop-1.1.0.tar.gz
At the command line (in /tmp/rdesktop/), issued the command: tar -xzvf
rdesktop-1.1.0.tar.gz
tar did a lot of good stuff very quickly.
Found a sub directory (of /tmp/rdesktop/) drwx------ rdesktop-1.1.0
Changed (cd) to /tmp/rdesktop/rdesktop-1.1.0
Found a lot of good stuff including a file: Makefile
Issued the command: make
A lot more good stuff took place all be it not as fast as the earlier tar
command.
Now the command "ls -l | more" showes a lot of files and a directory crypto
(drwx------)
Among the files are:
-rwxr-xr-a 1 root root (skip the size) rdesktop ("rdesktop"
in green)
-rw------- 1 1881 1881 (skip the size) rdesktop.c
-rw------- 1 1881 1881 (skip the size) rdesktop.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 1881 1881 (skip the size) rdesktop.o
Now the new opportunity (we never have problems, only opportunities)
When I enter the command "rdesktop xxxxxxxx" where xxxxxxxx is the name of
the Windows 2000 Terminal Server, I get:
-bash: rdesktop: command not found
I get the same resultes without xxxxxxxx which makes sense
FWIW I can ping the Terminal Server by name (xxxxxxxx) and it does respond
well.
I read the -rwxr-xr-x on rdesktop (in green) as being executable.
Where am I going wrong?
Thanking you all in advance.
George
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