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Small bootup program for remote desktop and wireless

yhelothar

yhelothar

Lifer
So my drive on my laptop is currently out for repair and I figure I could still use it if I could boot into something small on a flash drive and run remote desktop to my desktop with it.

BartPE seems to be the answer. It comes preloaded with networking support and remote desktop, but I can't seem to figure out how to get wireless working with it. I used this windows zero configuration plug-in, but the instructions seem to be in another language.
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=23656&pid=164201&start=100&#entry164201

Is there something easy like minixp or knoppix, etc...?
 
Try Puppy Linux, or Linux Mint, both will boot to a Live session on the CD before you install that is fully useable. Puppy is a little hairy configuring wireless in my experience but does work. The Mint 9 live session has found almost every single one of my machines network/wireless cards that ive put it in right off the bat. Worth a shot.
 
Are these linux programs able to remote desktop to my win7 machine or would I could download an addon, or would I need a whole new remote software altogether?
 
Wow Ubuntu is awesome. It took me like 3 minutes to get it up and running and it looks like a pretty well featured OS. Wireless and internet worked right away.
I'm gonna try teamviewer later. I hope it's as good as windows rdp.

Thanks again Jack!
 
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Do not forget that you need TeamViewer for Linux, and for the remote desktop for Windows (if it runs Windows).

Right now TeamViewer is the best and easiest RDT solution.



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I just found this.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-remote-desktop-for-controlling-windows-xp-desktop.html

It looks like I don't need a special client to run RDP and could just directly connect to my windows machine.
I'm not sure how to get to access root though. I found out I could access the console by pressing alt-ctrl F1 and switch back to GUI with alt-ctrl F7.

The console says to use the sudo command. But I'm not sure how to use it. I tried prefacing any of my commands with sudo but it just tells me I need to add parameters to sudo.
 
Alright I figured it out. I wasn't supposed to put the # or $ signs. I have the rdesktop client installed now but now I just need to figure out how to get it to connect. I put rdesktop [ip] and it says failed to open display
 
hmmm teamviewer isn't wanting to connect

I did some googling on the failed to open display and it seems like I don't have X for my ubuntu? I have the netbook version. Maybe I should've gotten the desktop one.
 
I just got some help over at the ubuntu forums. Finally got it up and working.
I used gnome-rdp with rdesktop. The gnome-rdp is a nice GUI for the rdesktop and it actually works. It's a helluva lot slower than windows rdp though :\ Oh well, at least it works.
 
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