[plug] Remote control

[Steve Grasso]

rdesktop http://rdesktop.sourceforge.net/ will probably do what you want

Regards,
Steve

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 15:21, chris wrote:
> look into VNC and use remote control, or if the program on the XP box
> can be run via the command line, maybe telnet (ugh, no security) or SSH
> might be an option. But most probably VNC is your best bet.
>
> Another option if you are handy might be starting a web server on the XP
> machine and setting up some scripts (I assume you can do that under XP,
> no idea how.. ) .. that'd be nicer as an end model, (if you had one or
> two specific tasks to run.. not very flexible though, ie changing the
> tasks you wanted to run could be a right pain in the butt).
>
> buut the web server model is OS independant and you wont need special
> software to control the XP machine. but security would be a pain in the
> butt. (IIS, cringe. windows XP.. ugh... you let an XP machine sit on the
> net alone without a big brother (aka linux firewall) to protect it? :)
>
> theres quite a few choices.. depends exactly what tasks you want to do
> .. I'm assuming they are XP-specific tasks, or you would be doing it the
> easy way (ie running linux on both ends). VNC is probably your best bet.
>
> On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 05:30, Robert Andrews wrote:
> > Hi all I would like to know if I can start an application on a Windows Xp
> > machine via a linux terminal. Thanks Regards Bob Andrews,