[PLUG] Help me help a hapless WinXP user

[Jason]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 18:40 -0700, Michael M. wrote:
> I have a friend in New York that I'm collaborating on something with.  
> Most of what we need to do we can do through email, but it's getting to 
> the point where it would be really useful for me to be able to transfer 
> files to (and sometimes retrieve from) his computer by other means.  He 
> has a recent Dell running Windows XP Home.

rdesktop will allow a linux box to connect to a WinXP though it has
limited support.  Works much like native Remote Desktop feature in XP.

VNC is also a good choice but requires a bit more setting up on your
friend's side.