Remote desktop connection in Linux (RHEL 5) server with Windows (Windows XP) clients

Question

• How can I do remote desktop connection in Linux (RHEL 5) server with Windows (Windows XP) clients?

• How can I take full rights? (I know the administrator password.)

• I want to access all things in the client machine, I even want to install software. How can I do it?

Solution 1

1. use "rdesktop"
2. "sudo su -", or simply "su -"
3. please describe

Solution 2

It looks like your asking to RDP FROM Windows TO linux?

You want to install xrdp on the linux server. I don't know if there are packages for RedHat specifically (I was able to simply apt-get install xrdp on Ubuntu 8.04), but this will let you use MSTSC from a windows workstation into linux.

If you are doing this to remotely admin the linux machine, you may want to consider brushing up on command line usage, and use putty + ssh. SSH is the 'usual' way to admin a linux server.

Comments

[Philip]

This questions needs some help. It looks like you're asking 3 different questions, but I can't figure out what you're trying to accomplish in any of them.