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Remote desktop connections

Remote desktop connections

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Remote desktop connections

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- Now, connecting to a command line interface is cool, but if you really want to be great, why don't we connect to a remote desktop? Let's face it, today's operating systems are often using graphical user interfaces. And if I want to connect to another system, it's often more interesting to me to be able to actually connect to a desktop on another system. So there's a lot more to this than simply connecting to a command line interface. We have to emulate mouse controls, we have to deal with graphic resolutions differences. So there's a few ways to do this. Now, in the Windows world, we use what's called Remote Desktop Protocol. RDP runs on port 3389 and it's pretty much unique to Windows. So what I'm going to do is I've got two computers up on the screen right now. I've got one of 'em I'm going to set up to allow people to use RDP, and then we'll go connect to it with the other one. So I've got a Windows 7 and a…

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