Why not just use the built in remote desktop with XP?
There are linux clients such as rdesktop.
Michael Fisher wrote:
> I am setting up and configuring a Toshiba laptop with Windows XP for
> my mother-in-law who lives in another state. She will have little to
> no free technical support so I am attempting to set up the computer
> and make it as simple as possible for a Windows machine.
>
> One of the things I want to do is to be able to remote into the
> computer and control desktop to perform tasks. My main computer now is
> a lenovo T61 Thinkpad with Ubuntu installed. I currently have a
> Windows XP desktop but my goal is to remove XP by the end of the year
> and put a version of Linux or BSD on it.
>
> Does anyone have any advice and/or experience on what would be a good
> program to install so I can run the target XP laptop from my Ubuntu
> Thinkpad?
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael Fisher
> desNotes@gmail.com <mailto:desNotes@gmail.com>
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