Study Notes

I have two computers in the office, the better one is installed RHEL3.0 update4. It used one Pentium4 775 3.2Ghz CPU and 4GB DDR2 memory,all these were based on Intel SE7221BA1-E engineer sample board. How fastly it runs! Another contains Celeron 533 and poorly 128MB memory,there are two operating system installed in this PC, windows 2000 Professional and Red Hat Linux 9.0.

The Lutos Notes is released by MI recently,and every employees must use this office system. I think the software is famous and be benifit for increasing work rate, but in facl it runs very very slowly so that I have no patience to wait. Through almost my work is done on Linux, I tried to control the Windows computer in my own Linux environment.

I found two tools, VNC and rdesktop. Both of these software were installed successfully, but it seemed that VNC could not response. Rdesktop would work but still could not connect to the windows. It said the windows refused connections. Why?

After reading some document in the Internet, I found that Windows 2000 Professional does not support remote connection ablity or terminal utility. However, Windows 2000 Server families could do this after installing external packages. Remote desktop was embeded in Windows XP and 2003 server. So, I installed a new Windows XP Professional in the PC whose cpu was celeron 533Mhz.

And then issue the rdesktop in the Linux command line:

# rdesktop -u phillip -g "1024*768" 192.168.1.143

“u” means username, phillip is an account of Windows XP
“g” configure the screen displayed in Linux environment
192.168.1.143, IP address of Windows machine.

By the way, the port number, for example 45272, could also be added to the following IP address.It will be useful when connecting to a server has firewall protecting. Everything of the Windows runs well in the Linux rdesktop connection session.