here is a question you probably never hear.....

can i run a linux app on windows? yes thats right, im going backwards haha but it is for a reason.

i have come to like rdekstop which i use on my laptop in linux obviously. unfortunately in some environments i am forced to use windows so what i would like to do is use rdesktop rather than rdp.

can this be done?

Cygwin should do you.

ah yes i have heard this. im tryin it at the mo but not havin much luck.

can u please give me instructions or point me to where i can find them to get it going?

What problems are you having? Basically, you just download setup.exe and run it, AFAIR.

http://cygwin.com/

The sidebar includes docs, FAQ, etc.

ive installed cygwin and when i run it from the start menu i get a konsole just like if i opened a konsole in linux. now im stuck. is rdesktop already installed/compiled? how do i run it?

why you want to use rdesktop?
' rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000/2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop '

So as far I can remember there are windows products around.......
and no rdesktop has to be installed within your cgwin installation enviroment.

If is just applications and some USB devices, use VMware. Though USB 2.0 and Windows 2000/XP do not mix well in VMware, so a USB 1.1 hub is needed which are getting scarce.

i want to use rdesktop on windows, thats it. reason being....i concurrently have to access multiple sites be it 2 sites anywhere up to maybe 6 sites. when you have 6 windows open in the taskbar and all they show is an ip address it can get some what confusing and annoying. rdesktop has a nice feature where you can specify a name to be inserted in the title bar of the window so instead of an ip i have a name.....

is there any other way to do this?

Just do as recommended above.

First Install Cygwin.
*make sure you install the X-server during the setup

Next just install an Rdesktop binary for Windows(still needs Cygwin with X!) like this one:
http://www.schimkat.dk/ForumStuff/Rd....4.1-Win32.zip

how do i install that rdesktop file(s)?

Uhh, you could try unzipping it and reading any enclosed instructions.

uuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i unzipped it and it has some dll's and an application file which does nothing on its own

uuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thanks for the hot tip. anyone got some advice that might be useful?

Hi,

An application and some dll's. That sounds like a Windows build to me, not a Linux build. A linux executable does not know anything about dll's, they do not exist in the Linux world. Windows dll's are conceptually the same thing as Linux .so files. If the application uses linked libraries, then I would expect them to be named with a .so extension. If it is really a Windows build and not a Linux build, then try to unzip the files into a Windows folder. After unzipping it, then try double clicking on the executable and see if it runs or not.

Ciao!

Attitude. Your post should have said 'I unzipped and there's no documentation, what do I do?' (Smart Questions) Since you didn't say that, brianL's suggestion (which he's volunteering out of his free time) is a perfectly valid one.

Anyway - it looks like you should be able to unzip it and run it directly. It comes with some DLLs that it probably expects to be in the current directory or on the path. So, it being windows, set up a shortcut that uses the unzip directory as the working directory and see if it runs. If not, dump it in somewhere on your cygwin path. These are just guesses, though.

(rstewart - it's supposed to be a windows build, in that cygwin executables have exe extensions and so on.)

What does it say on the website you downloaded it from about installation? (Another hot tip).