Maura Edeweiss Monville wrote:
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.
The protocol used, depends on what you want to do. Linux comes with several different servers, such as Samba, for Windows file sharing, ftp, telnet, ssh, NFS and many others. If using Samba, use the same domain and user names, as on Windows, to keep things simple.