Remote Desktop Connection

[Rick Stevens]

brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> 
>>krdc is KDE's front end to rdesktop.
>>
>>Again, that's gotta be XP/Pro.  XP/Home doesn't have it.
>>
>>Do you have iptables running?  rdesktop uses TCP port 3389.
>>
>>I'm sure it's RDP (remote desktop protocol).
> 
> 
> OK so I'm using rdesktop to talk to XP/Pro (actually Home is 
> suppose to have it but it doesn't by default install it, it's 
> suppose to be on the disk someplace but Yes we are using Pro at 
> work.

I guessed as much.

> OK, now we know what I'm doing (that's a major step) has anyone 
> had the problems I'm having?   I don't believe I'm got iptables 
> running, I'm behind a different firewall at home and figured I 
> didn't need the extra headache of keeping iptables going but I may 
> have started it by mistake (how do I tell?).

Do "iptables -L -n".  If you get a list of rules, you're running it.

> Again, I use VPN to get into my work computers then I use RealVNC 
> to access some of the machines and as they convert machines to 
> XP/Pro they want me to start using "Remote Desktop" as it comes 
> with XP/Pro and they have enough problems keeping the machines 
> working not to have to worry about me wanting to use Linux.
> 
> When I start "Remote Desktop Connection" that comes with RedHat 9 
> I get an error message saying I must not have SLP as it can't 
> browse the network.   I do have samba working (at least it can 
> see the windows machines in my house and we share printers).

I did a bit of research and SLP is "service locator protocol".  I've
never used it.  AFAIK, it's not part of any Red Hat or Fedora install,
but it is available from openslp.org.

Wait, are you trying to run rdesktop from home to see your stuff at the
office, or are you trying to run rdesktop on a machine at the office to
see stuff at the office?

> Using RDC I can't get on any of the XP machines even knowing the 
> machine name and IP.  Just says it can't find it.

If you're trying it from home, I can believe that.  My guess is that
office firewall is blocking you or the VPN isn't aliasing you.  Your
home machine can't browse the office network.
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