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PeterR · Joined: 03 May 2011 Posts: 1

I have been trying to get PuppyLinux (Lupu 525) to connect to control my Windows 7 Home box. The only thing I have been able to use so far is TeamViewer who charge a huge amount for any kind of commercial use.

My IP address is the same for both computers and I believe changes when I turn on the internet in the morning.

So if anyone can give me a walkthrough of the right commands for rdesktop, I'd be grateful.

My guess is it should be some variation of
# rdesktop 192.168.1.72 (the local addres of the computer)
but I get Connection Timed Out

When I use the current IP address I get Connection Refused.

Should I be using some form of computer address e.g. PR-HP, PR-HP.MSHOME, or PR-HP.home ?

Kind regards

Peter

jenciso · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 7 Location: Uruguay, Montevideo

Hi PeterR

I'm a newbee on puppy., but I'm trying to achieve something similar, and I'm running PuppyLinux Lupu525 from cd (with a storagefile on a usb pendrive)...

Your problem may be some kind of settings in your win7, preventing rdesktop to access it.
Maybe trying to set System Properties > Remote > RemoteDesktop > "Allow conections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop" may solve your connection...

But I'm no pro on this...

What I would want to ask you is how you installed rdesktop on your puppy?
Because I can't manage to find it.

I've also found Remmina (that seems to be a better option than rdesktop), but cannot manage to install it either.

thank you for any help
/best
/j

disciple · Posted: Mon 27 Jun 2011, 04:52 Post subject:

Remobo is probably a good alternative to Teamviewer.

disciple · Posted: Mon 27 Jun 2011, 04:56 Post subject:

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

PeterR

There are 2 different IP addresses - your intranet/internal home network behind a router/ISPmodem and your internet/external 'postbox' address needed to receive data packets from wherever

see

http://whatsmyip.net/

for your external IP address

Your router/modem will normally assign the internal one, via DHCP, usually in the region of 192.168.X.X

There is also the physical hardware address or MAC address
A MAC address represents the physical identifier of a network adapter, while the IP address represents a logical device address on Internet Protocol networks.

A built-in feature of IP, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) translates IP addresses to MAC addresses. ARP was not designed to translate addresses in the other direction, however.

For an explanation see

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/erx/erx50x/swconfig-routing-vol1/html/ip-config8.html

There's also Network address Translation

http://www.howstuffworks.com/nat.htm

Hope that's not too deep...?

Re: rdesktop, see rarsa's post here

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=91869#91869

and

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=12221

also see ttuuxxx's terminal server client dotpet here

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=239850#239850

Aitch Smile