Standalone RDP Client Required


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Afternoon All,

I'm in search of an RDP client I can use on a linux workstation I am using in a hotel to allow me to access my Windows workstation at home.

The only issue is, I have no access rights to install applications on the linux workstation; so is anyone aware of a RDP distro which is a standalone application and does not require installation?

Kind Regards,

Craig

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As a user on that Linux workstation, you probably have rights to run binaries that exist in the filesystem. And also likely that you can run any binary or script you create and can put in your /home/cmf/ directory.

But the ability to install an RPM or DEB file may exceed your authority.

If rdesktop (and other such apps that may do what you need to do) require certain libraries installed, then you may be out of luck.

Do you have VNC installed on the Linux box, and does your remote PC run a VNC server? (slim chance, I know)

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I may be missing the point here, but can you not run any live cd's? Because if you can, surely you can install rdesktop while in the live session. And if you can run a live cd, then I think Knoppix comes with rdesktop anyway.

I may be wrong, so please correct me if I am.

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this apply only if you can execute binary in your home directory (if you cant, then nothing will run that is not installed by default)

mkdir ~/usr
mkdir ~/usr/bin
mkdir ~/usr/share
mkdir ~/usr/lib

then add the to your ~/.bashrc

PATH=$PATH;$HOME/usr/bin

Then, if you have developement tools installed (gcc, binutils, g++) download and unzip rdesktop or krdc (if you have kdelibs 3.5 installed, if you have kdelibs 4.1, it is easyer to compile, but will take much more explainations, I will provide them if you ask me) source somewhere, unzip them "cd" into that directory and

 ./configure --prefix=~/usr
make
make install

You may have to compile individual dependancies manually.

If you don't have gcc, automake, binutils and other dev package, then you will have to find RPM or debs, extract them with an archive manager like ark or file roler and manually copy the file in the ~/usr directory (~/usr/bin, ~/usr/share and all other folder). You will find the list of destination or the folder itself in the package. Note that if it is a folder strcture, you have to copy the content of the folder, not the folder itself. Again, you will have to deal with dependancies. Read the dependancies list in the package and install all of them like the first. It will be a pain if you are missing too much.

When this will be done, you will be able to execute rdesktop or krdc like any other apps, it will be installed correctly if I did not forgot some system variable. Of course, this is not quick nor easy. Depending on the number of dependancies, it may also be very long, but it is doable -IF- your home partition have execution permissions.

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