use rdesktop to access windows desktop from CentOS

CentOS comes with rdesktop installed:
run the following command to access your windows desktop:

rdesktop -u user_name -f ip_address

To toggle full screen mode, use

ctrl+alt+enter

Problems and solution

1. While suing this program you may encounter WARNING: Remote desktop does not support colour depth 24; falling back to 16 if your windows system is Windows XP.
To fix the problem go to windows machine:

# go to Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc
# In the Group Policy Editor, navigate to Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Terminal Services, and double-click on the 'Limit maximum Color Depth' object. Set the item to "Enabled" and set "Color Depth" to "24 bit"

2. One other problem you may encounter is: Idle time over and rdesktop closed the connection. To fix this problem:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\terminal services\MaxIdleTime

It was set to 900,000 mSec. or 15-minutes. I increased the value to 10,800,000 or 3-hours.