Problem with RDP fron WinXP 2 Kubuntu

[danieleb]

Hi all,
i've got a big problem trying to connect from WinXP to Kubuntu via Remote desktop utility for WinXP. i've installed rdesktop on kubuntu and set it up to listen on port 20982, when i try to reach it from winXP i get a protocol error (code 0x1104) on WINXP, by the way on kubuntu i can see remote client trying to connect, it hangs up immediatly. Can anyone tell me a trick to solve this annoing problem?
thanx a lot,
Daniele

[javierrivera]

Re: Problem with RDP fron WinXP 2 Kubuntu

As far as I know, rdesktop is designed to connecto to a windows machine.

I mean, with rdesktop you will be able to connect to your XP machine from linux.

There are a couple of solutions to what you are asking. I like NX from no machine.

http://www.nomachine.com

It's a propietary app build on top of Free libraries, it's also free if you only need two or less people to be able to connect to the linux machine at the same time.

It has an opensource alter-ego FreeNX (based on the same libs), but it's not as polished.

There are some other options like VNC or tunneling X over SSH.

Javier.

[lec2004]

Re: Problem with RDP fron WinXP 2 Kubuntu

you will have to use the vnc app to connect to linux from xp. as Javier said krdc is only from Linux to another station.