[PLUG] Remote access to Windows machines

Derek Loree drl at drloree.com
Thu Aug 28 17:19:02 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:01, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Colin Kuskie wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to get a remote desktop from a windows box (Windows
> > 2000) to a linux box?
> 
> If the Windows box allows inbound RDP connections, then rdesktop will
> do what you want.
> 
>   http:///www.rdesktop.org/
> 
[snip]
> 
> It ships with Red Hat 8.0 and 9, and I'd be highly surprised if there
> weren't a .deb for it.

Yep, the .deb works well (unstable).  A long time ago, VNC didn't have
clipboard exchange, but rdesktop did.  It also does real user login,
instead of remote control of the desktop.  It is also a much more
responsive way to remotely interact with the windows GUI.  There are
rumors of hooking in sound too.  (So you can hear your server crash?)

HTH,

Derek Loree






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