Remote Desktop from linux to windows

To be able to rdp from a linux box to a windows box you must have find a program that uses windows' proprietary rdp protocol. http://www.rdesktop.org/ seems to be the best program this. The rdesktop software requires libX11-devel to be installed

To install rdesktop:

1. yum install libX11-devel
2. cd  /home/[username]/Download
3. wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/rdesktop/rdesktop-1.6.0.tar.gz?download
4. tar -xvzf rdesktop-1.6.0.tar.gz
5. cd redesktop-1.6.0
6. ./configure
7. make
8. makeinsall

To run rdesktop:

1. run rdesktop from the command line