[Techtalk] remote connection to windows machine

[Tricia Bowen]

Melina,
If you are trying to connect to your windows machine from your linux
machine, you might want to try http://www.rdesktop.org/. It will give you
the graphical interface you want to your windows machine. VNC
(vncviewer,vncserver) offers you the same functionality at a slower pace.
--Tricia


On 1/30/07, Magni Onsoien <magnio+lc-techtalk at pvv.ntnu.no> wrote:
>
> 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 :)
> --
> sash is very good for you.
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--Tricia