Terminal server

A terminal server allows a user to log in and work on the server just as he would do on his desktop. The following solutions exist:

Linux desktop

• guacAMole
• xdmcp
• nx
• set up a terminal server using VNC

Windows desktop

• rdesktop

Keys

When you work on a terminal server you do not want your Print Screen key to work on the local machine, but on the remote one. Read on here.

See also

• control a computer over the network