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Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 01 October 2006 21:04, Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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>> Mick wrote: |
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>>> Hi All, |
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>>> I want to access remotely my father in law's laptop which is running |
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>>> WinXP to help him out with his IT problems. |
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>>> I assumed that krdc will do just that, but all it does is to ask me for |
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>>> the password for my kdewallet and then it fails. The error message tells |
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>>> me something about ensuring that remote desktop is properly installed. |
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>>> :-( |
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>>> |
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>>> Is there somewhere a How-to for me to follow, to be able to connect to a |
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>>> remote default installation WinXP PC, with no physical access to it, from |
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>>> my Gentoo machine? |
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>>> |
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>>> Failing a How-to, how do you do it? |
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>>> |
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>> emerge net-misc/grdesktop |
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> Thank you. Given that grdesktop is just a gnome front end (equivalent to |
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> krdc, which I believe requires vnc) are any solutions that work with the |
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> default WinXP remote desktop/remote assistance set up? |
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No, grdesktop is a front-end for "net-misc/rdesktop" which is an RDP |
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(Remnote Desktop Protocol) client. This is exactly what you need to |
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connect to MS WinXP's "Remote Desktop" service. "emerge grdesktop" will |
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pull rdesktop as a dependency. That's all you need. No Installation of |
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VNC Server at the Windows computer. |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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