On 9/13/2011 0:30, Warp wrote:
>    (If this so "trivial", why haven't I ever heard of this "RDP"? Yes, this
> is the first time in my life I hear of it.

RDP is the Remote Desktop Protocol. You probably have it installed on your 
Linux machine under the name "Terminal Services Client."  Try firing that up 
and connecting to sgf.dnsalias.com.  RDP is the new name because TSC was 
originally designed for "X-Terminal" like operations on a headless server, 
while RDP is generalized to connect to anything.

There's also "remote assistance", which uses the same thing except automates 
the security and makes it easier for a naive user to let someone outside 
help them out, allowing management of remote requests?

> And it's not like I haven't been
> using Windows pretty regularly for the past 15 years or so. Contrast me
> knowing about tools like rsync, rcp, scp and wget, which arguably are not
> the most obvious things in unix either. What is the difference?)

I don't know. Do you remote login to Windows machines? It's how one does it, 
just like "ssh" does it for the UNIX world.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   How come I never get only one kudo?

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