[plug] Windows X-client

Steve Grasso steveg at calm.wa.gov.au
Thu Feb 14 13:37:05 WST 2002


Craig,

On Wednesday 13 February 2002 18:29, craig at postnewspapers.com.au wrote:
> > > hell. I need remote access for the NT box at work because, of course it
> > > doesn't have a CLI worth a damnn or ssh support - so of course VNC runs
> > > like a pig just to make life harder.
> >
> > You might like to try Terminal Server on the NT box and use rdesktop
> > (http://rdesktop.sourceforge.net/) to access it from *nix.
>
> Interesting possibilty... Terminal Server isn't built in to NT though is
> it? I thought it was a multi-thousand-dollar piece of software? (NOTE:
> _reluctant_ NT admin here)

Hmmm....my bad. You do need Windows NT Terminal Services Edition, as opposed 
to NT Server. Only Win2K has Terminal Server built in and available as a 
service.

Steve





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