Remoting into a Windows machine from Ubuntu Linux

Everyone knows the trick where you use a virtual machine with a windows install on it to remote desktop into a remote computer. The problem with this is that you’re putting yet another layer of virtualization between yourself and where you want to be working.

Fortunately, good people like Matthew Chapman over at www.rdesktop.org started working on a way natively remote desktop into a windows box from a linux box.

It’s a command line tool which actually seems to work faster than the native windows remote desktop client. If you’re a stickler for speed but not for graphics this is the way to go.

Say you want to connect to a remote windows machine with an IP of 192.168.100.216 on the GOIT domain with a username of expertuser and a password of ilikewellencryptedpasswords.

You’d then open a terminal and use the following command:

rdesktop -f -uexpertuser -pilikewellencryptedpasswords -dGOIT 192.168.100.216

Most people don’t bother with domains so you can skip that part. The -f is the command to start in full screen mode. Pressing ctrl+alt+enter toggles back and forth between windowed and full screen mode.

If you get a “command not found”, run apt-get, apptitude or some other package manager to install it, then try the command again.

eg.

sudo apt-get install rdesktop

Thanks to : http://www.goitexpert.com/linux/remoting-into-a-windows-machine-from-ubuntu/

If you want to have a Remote Desktop of your Ubuntu Machine from Xp then follw as follows:

Similary For windows :

VNC Viewer Free Edition for Windows is supplied as a component of the VNC Free Edition installation program. If the viewer has been installed in this way then it will be accessible via the Start Menu group created during the installation process (usually RealVNC/VNC Viewer 4).

The viewer executable may also be downloaded, either directly or Zipped. VNC Viewer for Windows is designed to run stand-alone, without requiring any other packages to be installed first.