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The process was pretty painless getting windows installed. After the install I looked at options for connecting to the XP box. Some suggested VNC, but I settled on using Remote Desktop since it is native to XP and it doesn't require any additional software installations.
So once you isntall windows make sure to install VMWare Tools, In the VMware Server Console,
select your windows box click "VM" and then click Install VMWare tools and restart the Windows Box. Now your display should look much better inside the console view, and now the windows box should adjust to any resolution you want.
Next I went into my router config and added a static dhcp rule for my windows box so that it would always have the local IP address of 192.168.0.121. You can either go set a static IP or set a rule if you prefer, it really depends on your router setup and networking experience. If you don't know how do to this then you can skip the step and instead, in your windows box, click <Start> -> Run
Type cmd
>ipconfig
Then hit enter and you should see you ipaddress there, write that down or remember it.
So now I enable remote desktop on the windows machine.
Right Click on My Computer
Click on Properties
One of the tabs at the top should be for Remote.
Check the box Allow Users To Connect Remotely
I enabled it and realized I didn't have a user for myself created yet. To do that in XP Pro
Right Click on My Computer
Click Manage
Click Local Users and Groups -> Users
Create New User by right clicking in the white space and choose "New User"
Set a password for the user as well.
Once the user is created go back to 'Remote' in My Computer Properties and Add the user you created.
Now click ok and you should be ready to log out of windows.
Back on your ubuntu box you can connect in two ways, For both you need to have rdesktop installed. I think it camd default, but I also opened a command terminal to install th gnome remote desktop component.
> sudo su
> apt-get install rdesktop
> apg-get install grdesktop
All you really need is rdesktop. For my way, but from here you can connect using the Gnome Remote Desktop under Applications -> Internet but I prefer to just have a cript that I can run to open it.
This is the script I used
You can type it into the command prompt or do as I did and Right click on the ubuntu desktop and choose 'Create Launcher' and paste the line below in as a command.
Some details on the command and what you will have to change.
One: you will need to replace the MYUSERNAME and MYPASSWORD with the username and password you created.
Two: -r disk:drives=/home is meant to create a share between my ubuntu boxes home folder and my windows box. I seem to have some permission problems, but you can check if it works by going to My Computer.
Three: The IP address will need to be changed to what you chose earlier.
>rdesktop -uMYUSER -pMYPASSWORD -g 1300x690 -xl -r disk:drives=/home/ 192.168.0.121
Good Luck
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