You might try real VNC, tho it's not free anymore
http://realvnc.com
Quoting Victor Odhner <
vodhner@cox.net>:
> Someone here suggested rdesktop for remote desktop operations on a
> Windows XP box, from Linux. I have it, but it's not working yet.
>
> I have a Cisco VPN client installed and working under Centos, and it
> works fine for connecting to Unix boxes at work. I would like to
> connect to my XP desktop at work in order to use the Outlook and Remedy
> clients that are installed there, and also to persist some sessions with
> the various Unix/Linux boxes that I support. That would let me, for
> example, start something at work and then check on that session when I
> get home.
>
> I have rdesktop installed, but I can't get it to connect. The command
> I've used is just:
>
> rdesktop dskvodhner
>
> ... where dskvodhner is the internal name of my desktop on the Microsoft
> network. The response is "can not connect". When installing rdesktop,
> I had to install some xorg libraries and then had to add their linker
> path to the Makefile with a -L argument.
>
> Any hints would be gratefully received . . .
>
> Also, off topic: this weekend my remote desktop when connected from my
> XP system at home has been glacially slow, while PuTTY connections run
> just fine. So I guess that's some sort of Microsoft network problem?
> I've been highly impressed with the responsiveness of this connection in
> the past.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vic
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