Technical Analysis: Security Considerations for rdesktop and Windows Terminal Services

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re: Technical Analysis: Security Considerations for rdesktop and Windows Terminal Services

srinath — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:00:26 GMT

i have a issue with terminal server

OS:windows 2003 sp1. when user login through RDP from xp system

then session stops at applying settings screen? if i reboot the server then will work for a day then same problem repeates.

what could be the problem? please let me know

With Best regards

srinath

re: Technical Analysis: Security Considerations for rdesktop and Windows Terminal Services

Joseph Cohen — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:52:07 GMT

That is incorrect. Not only is RDP protocol documented (mostly corrected) but the server side of the protocol was recently clean room implemented using those RDP docs for another platform. Together with Microsoft and Apple, Aqua Connect created the world's first commercial RDP server for NON-windows platforms, namely the Apple OS X platform. Check out our website for more info. In addition we were up at Microsoft's EEC Lab to test our RDP implementation against various test apps that Microsoft wrote and I would like to say it worked out great. Parts of our app will be open sourced soon but the RDP module will not be.

re: Technical Analysis: Security Considerations for rdesktop and Windows Terminal Services

falde — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:06:52 GMT

The main problem here is that there is no official RDP client for linux. The RDP protocol itself is closed and undocumented, which makes implementations as rdesktop difficult to do and maintain.

To solve this, Microsoft should release the specifications for the protocol. Parts of or the whole protocol should be collected in a "librdp" under an open source license to make sure that clients like rdesktop can achieve full compatibility.

After all, rdestop and Terminal Services is a good way to make sure that Microsoft Windows will stay on peoples desktop, even if they choose another operating system to deal with their hardware.