How do you boot Windows into a Terminal Window while having Linux up?

Matt Alexander plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:30:43 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Mario Hines wrote:

> To anyone,
>      A friend of mine informed me that you can boot
> Windows into a terminal window while having Linux up
> in the background.  What boot options would you have
> to specific to achieve this goal?  This would be a big
> help to me.  Thanks.

You can use the rdesktop program to access a Windows server running
Terminal Services.  For example, from the command line, type:

rdesktop 172.16.1.10 &

Or, put the IP address in your hosts file and use the name.

You can download it at:

http://www.rdesktop.org