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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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> > |
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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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Regards, |
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Mick |
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