Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need help in using Rdesktop command without running X session

On Sunday 21 Jun 2009, Neelesh Gurjar wrote:

I have installed voyage linux on thinclient. I have installed rdesktop and Xorg on it. However coz of space issue I couldnt install any window manager on it. So I have to connect Windows server from CLI only. I tried following command: $ rdesktop -f <server ip>:3389 It shows "ERROR: Failed to open display"

Is the X server running? I have not done this for a while. IIRC, you have to set the thin client X server to allow (see xhost +machine) remote connection coming into the X server.

You will also need a wm to manage the display. Have you tried to integrate fluxbox or icewm? Both are light on resources (disk space and memory)