[Techtalk] remote connection to windows machine

[Magni Onsoien]

On 2007-01-30 11:27:01 -0800, Melina Demertzi said:
> Hi,
> I do not know if this is the correct mailing list to send my question, 
> but anyway I'll try. :)
> At work, I was given to work on a windows machine. However, I use to 
> work a lot remotely from home.
> Of course with a unix machine this is not hard but with now I ran into 
> problems.
> Does anyone know how I can establish a connection with the PC? Is there 
> a way that I can also have the graphical environment?
> X doesn't seem to work so far...

Windows 2003 and Windows XP professional include the Remote Desktop
Service, which uses the Remote Service Protocol. The service need to be
enabled, and the firewall may need to be configured to allow traffic to
3389/tcp on the server.

Clients to connect to it exist on both Windows and Unix.
On the Windows machine I use at work it's in the All 
programs->Accessories->Communications menu.
In Unix this command is called 'rdesktop' (the package in your favourite
distro/Unix variant is probably called the same) and has a lot of
options. In particular you may want to use '-a 16 -k gr' to get 16 bits
colours (8 is default) and Greek keyboard layout (won't work unless the
appropriate keymap file is installed).

More about the protocol and lots of links may be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol


Magni :)
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