How to access window's remote desktop from Linux

[cyber-noob]

I am a student and have two PCs in my room which is connected with each other using LAN cable.One of the system is installed with windows and another is using Linux.After connecting the wire,I am unable to interact with both system.please will you tell me,how would I connect with both system.

I am waiting for the rely,please tell me the possible solutions about this.

[Milton.J]

I have faced this problems also when I was using Debain Linux at my home, I wanted a method to login into Microsoft windows desktop from Linux Operating system.

I searched on so many places but there is no explanation about this problem but finally I got the solution from the internet and the article suggested me to do with the command line arguments and use the rdesktop.

The rdesktop provides the facility to connect with the another windows system.This is one of the interactive utility of Linux. It is a client for remote desktop protocol (RDP) which can be applied with the following operating environment like -Windows NT Terminal Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server.

[Spyrus]

There are two options to do this,you can implement it but I used only one-

1- If you are working with Fedora then you can use Wine to run mstsc.exe in Linux and simulate .exe runtime environment.mstsc.exe is in your windows\system32 system directory or it can easily be downloaded from the official site of Microsoft.
And another one is using VNC viewer.

2- Using VNC,you can easily download WinVNC for windows XP that would act as your server.on other side use VNC client which is compatible with Fedora to access your Windows XP system.

To know about the VNC implementation and installation,A small tutorial for VNC viewer configuration.

[Snake08]

Installing rdesktop on Linux

The rdesktop utility can eb used to interact with your windows operating system.The utility is provided by the system and you need to activate this only using the specified command -

For installing the rdesktop on Linux operating system,you have to execute the following command :

# apt-get install rdesktop

The Above command would activate the services of rdesktop.

[Zachary]

Connecting with Windows server:

If you are working on Linux and you need to connect with Windows sever machines at different location then you can use the command associate with some different than other system.

The connection would be established using the following command :

$ rdesktop mw2sn100.mycorp.com

The command is acceptable for only Windows server operating system.

[Big Fish]

Connecting to windows XP/Vista

If you are working on Linux and windows with Xp and vista then you can use the different command for connecting with windows xp and vista.

The following command would be used to connect with windowsXP and vista operating system when you working on Linux.The following command would be used as follows -

$ rdesktop 192.168.1.17

You have to use the IP addresses of the system for only windows Xp series.