VNC from Windows machine to Fedora box

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Sun Jan 6 19:30:55 UTC 2008


On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:12:56 -0700
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> > Thanks, Wolfe. Will she need to install anything locally on her
> > Winbox, or does rdestop support the builtin MS desktop sharing
> > protocol? I'm a bit unable to google at the moment, but as soon as I
> > get home I'll look deeper into it.  
> ----
> WinXP Professional has Remote Desktop service, WinXP Home does not. I
> presume a similar arrangement for Vista but haven't seen enough of Vista
> to know.

I'm pretty sure you have to enable remote desktop in some obscure
control panel setting on the XP box to be able to use it. No doubt
there could be firewall issues as well if there is a firewall on the
XP box.




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