Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Jophn Deo <jophndeo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 09 September 2004 21:03, Maura Edeweiss Monville wrote:

Does it have to be a GUI connection?
> I tried to connect from my desktop PC running SuSE 9.1 to the computer in
> the Division I'm moving to (they all use Windows in there) .. I
> succeeded by using the SuSE provided Remote Desktop Connection.
>
> Now my question is: Can people I'll be working with, who (unfortunately)
> use Windows XP, connect to my computer running Linux/SuSE 9.1 ?
> They regularly use RDC for connections among Windows computers.
> I've just found out it's possible to connect from Linux to Windows.
> I wonder if the opposite way works too, that is from Windows XP
> to Linux/SuSE ??? If the answer is YES then what should they use
> (protocol/package) and what should they know about my computer (domain,
> IP, etc..) ?
> All the computers are on a network.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Maura