Saturday, January 24, 2009

How to connect to a Windows from Ubuntu !!!

1. Ubuntu comes bundled with "rdesktop". In case it's not install use:
$sudo install rdesktop

2. Make sure before connecting to the Windows machine the user with which you want to login has a password set against it.

3. You are all set to connect to the windows machine using "rdesktop" as show below:
#rdesktop -u administrator -g 750x500 -a 16 192.168.1.3

In case you don't want the password to be used, refer the following:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=303846