First Step
Setting your windows to allow remote access in your network.
1. Open Start Menu | Control Panel.
2. In Control Panel windows, choose double click System icon.
3. When System Properties opened, choose Remote tab.
4. Mark ‘V’ in ”Allow users to connect remotely to this computer”. If you have a lot of users in your computer, select button “Select Remote Users…”.
5. In “Remote Desktop User” you can add user that can be accessed in remote desktop.
6. And then Apply your setting.
Second Step
Setting your firewall to open your computer port for remote desktop.
7. Open Start Menu | Control Panel.
8. Click Windows Firewall icon to open windows firewall setting.
9. Choose Exceptions tab, and give mark for Remote Desktop in Program and Services.
10. Click OK to apply your setting.
Third Step
Last step, we use rdesktop package in Linux distribution for remote desktop tools.
11. To check that rdesktop already installed in your system, use this command in console.
# rpm –qa | grep rdesktop
rdesktop-1.5.0-20
If your console displayed your rdesktop version. So rdesktop is already installed in your linux system. But if your system not already installed rdesktop you can follow next step to install rdesktop.
12. Still use your console, type this command,
# rpm –ivh rdesktop-1.5.0-20
13. After your installation complete, then you can run your rdesktop to remote windows desktop.
# rdekstop 10.252.1.32
If you want to remote more computers, you can type command :
# rdekstop
You can allow remoted computer sound in your linux system, and you can hear it.
# rdekstop –r sound:local
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