X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Robert Rackl" To: "'Andrew DeFaria'" , References: <001901c9e8a2$801beeb0$8053cc10$@net> In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: Remote desktop connection Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 19:12:23 -0700 Message-ID: <001a01c9e8a7$ba703cb0$2f50b610$@net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com It seems that with regular RDP, I can only do it using one local screen; if= there is a way to use multiple screens please let me know how. A couple of= years ago, a friend showed me how to use Cygwin to establish a remote desk= top connection using two local screens which worked well until a disk crash= . That friend is now far away and very busy - I'd rather not bother him. r4=20 -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of= Andrew DeFaria Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 19:03 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Remote desktop connection Robert Rackl wrote: > I just downloaded Cygwin 1.7 Beta and installed it successfully. Now I=20 > would like to use it to establish a two-screen remote desktop=20 > connection to a remote computer with Win XP. Which package(s) do I=20 > need to install? Any other sage advice? How is this related to Cygwin? To establish remote desktop connection=20 you use RDP or mstsc.exe. --=20 Andrew DeFaria I was born by Cesarean section, but you really can't tell...except that=20 when I leave my house, I always go out the window... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/