[Pauldotcom] rdesktop command, use local machine

Adrian Crenshaw irongeek at irongeek.com
Sat Jan 16 14:57:40 UTC 2010


On the windows client, using a .\ in front seems to work, for example
.\adrian
I've not tested on rdesktop client for Linux.

Adrian

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> On a recent test I found a local windows admin account and wanted to
> script trying it against a bunch of machines with open RDP. With the
> Linux rdesktop command you can specify the -d parameter to say which
> domain to use but I couldn't find a way to specify that I wanted the
> local machine. Without -d on most machines it defaulted to the main
> network domain.
>
> Without knowing the machine name, is there any way to force the
> authentication to be done against the local machine? If there is then
> I've got a nice little script that will try to create an RDP
> connection to each machine in a list, hopefully leaving you with a
> logged in connection for each one that works.
>
> Robin
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