Re: vfp,windows server 2003 and linux

Unlike Windows, Linux is made up of layers. You can make choices in

what layers you use. Windows talks to the hardware, video, sound,

keyboards, printers, etc. You pretty much get a [huge] bundle that

makes up Windows.

At the core of everything is Linux itself. We all commonly misuse the

word "Linux" to mean an entire system but Linux is really just this core

OS. On top of this Linux core, can sit different GUI systems. Two

common desktop GUI systems are GNOME and KDE. There are others but I'll

leave it that point. GNOME and KDE present you with a UI that would

remind you of Windows or the Mac OS. You can double click on icons,

maximize and minimize windows, etc.

Along with these GUI systems come commonly installed programs. The

programs we were talking about allow you to remotely control Windows

2003 and other Windows systems (and Linux systems and Mac systems) is

called "krdc" and "gnome-rdp". Since I use KDE, I click on the krdc

icon on my desktop, and it asks me which server I want to connect to.

After I make my choice to connect to a Windows 2003 server, inside of

that window is the server desktop asking me for my login information.

Once logged in, I can do anything I can normally do from the keyboard at

the server. Sweet. (and free as in beer.)

As a side note, GNOME appears to be more popular with Linux distros.

After a few minutes of practice, both are very easy to use and you'll

feel right at home.

HTH.

Rafael Copquin wrote:

> Could you expand on that, Kevin, please?

> What is krdc, what is KDE url? what is GNOME?

> Thanks

> Rafael

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Kevin Cully" <kcully@cullytechnologies.com>

> To: <profoxtech@leafe.com>

> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:40 AM

> Subject: Re: vfp,windows server 2003 and linux

>> I was just remoting into a W2K3 just a minute ago from my Linux laptop.

>> I'm using krdc (from KDE) and I think GNOME has their own version. grdc

>> perhaps? Both should be free and come with common distros.

>> Peter Cushing wrote:

>>> You could run the app by running an RDP session on the 2003 server. I'm

>>> pretty sure I've done that from a linux machine at home and got on our

>>> RDP server at work. Don't know about costs etc. but we use:

>>>

>>> Winconnect server XP

>>>

>>>

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