RemoteDesktop with Ubuntu?

kamil212 · 06-11-2006, 09:35 PM

Hi,
Sorry I didn't have time to search but can I connect to my win2003 server box (local network) with linux (currently installing Ubuntu)
Thanks in advance,
-Kamil

btmiller · 06-11-2006, 11:34 PM

There is a package called rdesktop that implement's MS's remote desktop protocol. I've generally had good luck getting it to work, but have noticed a few oddities (failures to connect correctly).

dudds · 06-12-2006, 04:54 AM

Hi I have used Kununtu and the remote desktop works without any problems. There is a program under Internet menu that comes preinstalled with Kubuntu called Krdc. You then need to install the rdesktop package using adept and that's it. Everything works!

ethics · 06-12-2006, 06:05 AM

Dont have time to search? well that's ok then, we'll do it for you!

VNC (most flavours) work just fine

kamil212 · 06-12-2006, 06:18 AM

Thanks a lot guys,
-Kamil

EDIT: Thanks again,
I finally got ubuntu to install and 'rdesktop' works great. exactly what I needed to manage my downloads on my server box.

ingar · 06-12-2006, 09:25 AM

There's also a few GUI interfaces available for "rdesktop". One of them, which I've been using with good results - is "Xdrdesktop".
The good thing about this one, is that it makes it easy to have your own local printer available when your'e connected to the Windows 2003-server (so that you could for instance print out from MS-Word to your printer). You'll find it on Sourceforge.