On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:45, Dimych wrote:
--- Jerry Westrick
wrote: Could you expand on this please???
When I'm sitting in front of my XP machine, I would most definitely like to use my SuSE desktop, as if I were on it. Is this what your saying is possible?
And this is possible in reverse (from SuSE to XP)?
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Actually there is a much simplier solution (at least in 9.3 and 10) to connect to your Windows XP Pro desktop from SuSE: - Enable the remote connection in Windows XP (Control Panel -> System -> Remote -> Remote Desktop -> Allow users to connect remotely to this computer) - Use krdc in SuSE(System -> Remote Connection -> krdc) to connect to your Window XP desktop
It might be worth pointing out here that krdc (which is an RDP client for KDE) will *only* connect from Linux -> Windows; whereas VNC will connect from either machine to either machine. (Firewall ports permitting: RDP needs tcp/3389; VNC typically runs over tcp/5900.) If you're feeling in need of security and don't mind a bit of pain, you could always try running an X server on your Windows PC and then tunnelling X over SSH. cheers, Gideon.