How can I remote desktop to a Windows machine from a Linux machine?

Question

At work I use Windows Server 2008. At home, I just got a openSUSE laptop. Is there an RDP client I can use?

Answer 1

http://www.rdesktop.org/

Answer 2

rdesktop and tsclient both work well in my experience on Red Hat and Ubuntu. I expect that either or both would be available for SuSe. I use a little shell script to access windows over RDP:

#!/bin/sh

SERVER=name.of.windows.machine

/usr/bin/rdesktop -g 1152x864 \
-a 16 \
-u windowsusername \
-d windowsdomain \
-r sound:local \
$SERVER

Answer 3

You could use VNC. The VNC server can be installed on your Windows box and the VNC client installed on your Linux laptop. VNC is free and very good, I tend to use it in preference to Remote Desktop.