Remote Desktop

[ejleiss]

I am trying to remote desktop from the raspberry pi to a windows PC. Has anyone done this before? I've read many ways to do the reverse using Putty etc but nothing about performing a remote desktop from the pi to a windows pc. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks

[DaveDriesen]

Hi,

You can use rdesktop for this

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$ apt-get install rdesktop
$ rdesktop remotemachine.example.local

You'll probably have to play around with the keyboard map parameter unless you're stateside..

Also you'll need to start the X server on your rpi.

Dave Driesen
Linux dev and oldskool elite

[pjc123]

I've read many ways to do the reverse using Putty etc but nothing about performing a remote desktop from the pi to a windows pc.

Sure, just do the VNC in reverse as well. With tightvnc for example, you would install the tightvnc server on your windows computer and install the tightvnc viewer "xtightvncviewer" on your pi.

[pluggy]

I'd use rdesktop to Windows personally. It takes less out of both machines. And its sort of native to Windows. (Varies by windows version, some its already on, some needs it downloading from M$.) VNC is a bit of a kludge IMO.