-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to access remotely my father in law's laptop which is running WinXP to > help him out with his IT problems. > > I assumed that krdc will do just that, but all it does is to ask me for the > password for my kdewallet and then it fails. The error message tells me > something about ensuring that remote desktop is properly installed. :-( > > Is there somewhere a How-to for me to follow, to be able to connect to a > remote default installation WinXP PC, with no physical access to it, from my > Gentoo machine? > > Failing a How-to, how do you do it?
Mick, You first mentioned krdc, I use this all the time. I *do* use it with VNC, but had often wondered if it was possible to use the native RDC feature in WinXP. So, when you posed your question, I took a quick look. If you want to use RDP as opposed to VNC, you must specify this in the address of the host to which you are connecting, like so: rdp:/mydadsbox.some.isp.com This should get you going. You can also bypass kdewallet by de-selecting that option in the Preferences. Cheers. - -- gentux echo "hfouvyyAhnbjm/dpn" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 5495 0388 67FF 0B89 1239 D840 4CF0 39E2 18D3 4A9E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFIEtTTPA54hjTSp4RAp40AJ9EcKTzcJAOdMWl55AN3SSuFlquxwCgtsXx oQ8yWgvuxlHRtTk7xxsV55M= =AwZY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
