Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:02:48 -0500 From: daniel <freebsd@danielquinn.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely Message-ID: <200503221102.48828.freebsd@danielquinn.org> In-Reply-To: <20050322155438.GC89505@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20050322155438.GC89505@ns2.wananchi.com>
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On March 22, 2005 10:54 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > I have this big curse that I have to access the office computer from > home. The office PC runs WinXP Home, not Professional. > I have turned the Internet upside-down trying to get an app that will > enable me access the goddamn XP desktop, using something like krdesktop, > from home. Something that can run on the Windows XP and provide me > access to it's desktop from a FreeBSD box running KDE. i'd suggest vnc: http://www.realvnc.com/ http://www.tightvnc.com/ you use realvnc to install the server, then tightvnc to connect (i find it's faster than the normal vnc client. then to connect all you need is X running and: $ vncviewer <ipaddress> security note: vnc is *not* encrypted and is not generally considered secure. any ports you open/forward should be directed to your ip only. even better, try a knocking daemon. -- i hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. - thomas Jefferson, 1816
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