rdp vs w2k

[Carl L R Cook <clc38@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James writes:
 > We have tried rdesktop with our W2K server and so far we have not
 > been able to get it to work :-( It does try to connect however it
 > then disconnects straight away. It does however work fine with our
 > NT4TSE's.

Interesting... thanks for that.  W2KTS uses RDP 5.0 - I wonder if
NT4TS uses an earlier version?

Actually, I ran a packet capture over the rdesktop client (from
solaris) and also a terminal server client (from a w2k workstation) -
both talking to the same server.  Both packet streams appeared to send 
packets in the same order, but the w2k client sent way more data in
several of these packets -- info such as client ip address, pc name,
workstation/domain info among other things.

Im guessing that the final "initialisation" packets sent by both
clients were security handshaking packets -- again the w2k client
sent way more data.  The final thing that I noticed is that the
rdesktop client actually hangs in there after X has created the main
client window -- the disconnect from the server only occurs when the
first X client data arrives.

Kind Regards,
~Carl.