[PLUG] Help me help a hapless WinXP user

[Aaron Ten Clay]

On Tue April 11 2006 19:23, David Tod Sigafoos wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> one of the many vnc's should work .. check out realvnc.com
> 
> The only heartache will be getting the router to forward the port
> 
> Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 6:40:20 PM, you wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> MM> Ideally, I would be able to have any and all remote-desktop
> MM> capabilities, but I think Windows only provides that from one
> MM> Windows machine to another, and even then only in XP Professional.

The 'rdesktop' program can be used to connect to an RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) server, which is what WinXP uses for desktop sharing. It's free/OSS, I use it to connect to my family's PCs and help them with issues now and then.

-Aaron
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