Remote Desktop – Ubuntu
The fact of the matter is that my server that does all of my backup and that sort of goodness runs on Vista. It also houses my budget spreadsheet so I need to get to it on a regular basis. I tried gnome-rdp but it keeps telling me that it’s unable to find my desktop. I’ve been looking around and think I need to try something called rdesktop (according to this anyway).
I suppose that’s the fun part about Linux. I mean RDP has been around for ages in the Microsoft world (they called it Terminal Server before) and it’s pretty much standardized there. You could use VNC or other protocols to get into another PC remotely, but it’s usually easier to just use Windows’ built in RDC app. After using Parallels on Hongyun’s Macbook and enjoyed the coherence mode that makes Windows apps look like they are native mac apps. I’m hoping I can find something similar to this for Ubuntu.
xrdp?
I just upgraded to Hardy Heron and tried both Gnome-RDP (got some error about loading the db on startup) and RDP client (I believe it’s xrdp) in the apps menu. The RDP client couldn’t find my machine even though I could find all of the samba shares using the file browser.
Now I do remember this working with an IP address at one point, but that is busted now as well. Back to Vista for a little while.