XDCMP / RDP compatibility for MacOS X

[Yesurbius]

Macs give me a woody! My office is planning to move towards Thin Clients and since I'm in charge I was thinking about the iMac .. Its affordable and it now runs MacOS x .. if there is an XDCMP (X for Unix), and an RDP (Remote Display Protocol - Micro$oft) for MacOSx - it would make the perfect solution for me...

Here's what I have found out so far...

There are a number of XDCMP clients that are commercially available for MacOSx - but I don't feel like shelling out another $500 per machine - that's too much money.

http://www.xfree86.org - XFree86 now has a version of X for Darwin. This shows promise and there are already patches out to allow you to run X simultaneously with Aqua - Way Cool!

I haven't been able to find *ANY* commercial RDP clients for MacOS X .. If anyone knows of one, let me know.

I have found an RDP client for unix however .. with the source code available http://www.rdesktop.org ... Perhaps a port could be made (easily?)

If anybody could offer some insight ... Appreciated..

[strobe]

You can try compiling rdesktop. I'm not going to port it since I've got other projects on the shelf (unless you pay me).

Have you considered VNC instead?

[SuperMatt]

If you want a commercial java-based terminal services client, check out www.hobsoft.com - they specialize in this stuff. I have used their HOB Link software, which works well. Of course, rdesktop will compile for Mac OS X without a problem. There is a related forum on here about that, which shows you how to change some key mappings. By the way, I can't seem to get rdesktop to run just by typing "rdesktop" at the command line. I need to go to the directory it's in and then type ./rdesktop to get it to run. How do I get it to run without going to its directory?

Matthew