Remote Desktop From Ubuntu To XP
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Recently I receive an email asking me how to best remotely access their XP desktop from their Ubuntu PC. While some might point to a SSH solution, it may not be needed if being done over a LAN and if the data exchange is not really a big secret.
The fact of the matter is this is actually pretty easy. Just install TightVNC to the XP box, make sure the firewall ports are open for 5900 and 5901. From there, all you need is to have the VNC server running as a service on XP, then simply use Ubuntu to do the following.
First of all, install GUFW, then open up the same ports as above on the Ubuntu box. Then Applications, Internet, Remote Desktop Viewer. Once there, you will enter the LAN IP for the XP box along with the port number. Again, it will likely be either 5900 or 5901. So it might look something like 192.168.1.100:5901
That is all there really is to it!
2 Comments
hemanth.hm
September 29th, 2009
at 1:33am
In case of a dynamic IP and across LAN, the real “remote”, how would you go about using VNC,?
The terminal Server Client as of now is doing good over static IP remote machine and as well as LAN.
thariq
September 29th, 2009
at 7:21am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n33yl1jAqgQ
think this works in ubuntu out of the box without having to install anything extra