On 13/09/2011 03:21 PM, Invisible wrote:
>>> Terminal Services is where you have an expensive server-class version of
>>> Windows,
>>
>> Nope, that's Citrix (it may have changed names since MS acquired them,
>> but everyone in the industry still calls it Citrix) and it runs on a
>> different port than RDP. Terminal Services is the service running on the
>> remote machine that receives the connection from MSRTC.EXE running on
>> your computer to allow remote desktop connections.
>
> As far as I'm aware, Citrix is a completely different product made by a
> completely different company. Terminal Services is just another instance
> of the general RDP protocol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Services

Terminal Services most definitely *is* RDP. So is Remote Assistance. 
Exactly as I claimed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix

Citrix was not "acquired" by MS at all.

MS got the idea for Terminal Services from Citrix, but the actual wire 
protocol appears to be derived from PictureTel.

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