Re: Problems with rdesktop

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Christian Christmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running rdesktop v1.3.0 on my Debian Sarge box.
>
> When I try to connect to a Windows XP system, this
> works fine with "rdesktop WINPC". However, when I specify
> the color depth with "rdesktop -a 16 WINPC", the connection
> is not established but I get the rdesktop usage message.
> What is wrong? Why is "-a X" not accepted even though it
> is explicitly mentioned in the man pages?
>   
The man page says:
> Note that the colour depth may also be limited by the server configuration.
>   

I suspect the problem may be on the server end of things, but I'm unsure
how you'd configure that.


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