"Wanton_disregard" wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm connecting to a XP pro sp-2 machine from a machine running Fedora Linux.
> I can connect with no problems,but I can only get a 8-bit low resolution
> screen. I've tried to use the display properties dialog on the Xp machine but
> the slider for increasing the screen resolution is locked. The help file
> explains how to change it from a XP client,but doesn't give any details on
> the syntax that might help me from a non- windows client
> Thanks

Check the -a parameter for rdesktop, set it to 24 for 24bit, 16 for 16bit,
etc. "man rdesktop" will give you the full information on all the options to
rdesktop