Last week as my work load seemed to increase I found a need to remote access my XP_SP2 machine. As the laptop is Ubuntu I needed remote desktop, no problem so I thought. Since rdesktop comes as a standard package I didn’t think anything about having problems, but when my first attempt said “connection refused” I thought hummmmmmm.

A quick check of the remote desktop service to make sure it was running and a test with VNC, which was successful, and I was scratching my head. That is until I googled a little and checked to see if terminal services was running, nope. Start em up and you should be good.

And yes I’d rather put in the extra time from the deck or the couch than sitting at the desk.