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priya
Asked: 2012-05-14 23:19:51 +0800 CST

How to login into a Ubuntu machine from Windows

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We have Windows Vista/XP machines connected to a Win 2k3 server in our LAN environment. We recently got few laptops configured w/Ubuntu 11 and we would like to enable our Windows users to remote login into these Ubuntu machines (e.g. with their own user id(s)) so that they can work on them.

What should I do to achieve this?

Note: We don't want to use anything like TeamViewer or VNCViewer ..., we just need terminal access to these machines so that we can compile/run programs.

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3 Answers

  1. I recommed to use SSH if you need terminal access.

    1. Install openssh-server on Ubuntu machine.

    sudo apt-get install openssh-server

    Or you can find under software center.

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    To connect from a Windows machine, download putty from HERE. and install under windows.

    Open putty and type in the Host Name or IP address for the Ubuntu machine.

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    Type your username and password and login

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    That is all :)

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  2. Best Answer

    if your goal is to access to a remote Ubuntu machine just by terminal connection, you can use ssh. You've to install openssh-server by apt on Ubuntu and use for example Putty from windows.

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  3. You can use xrdp if you want to connect with remote desktop.

    Here is a simple tutorial: http://www.ubuntututorials.com/remote-desktop-ubuntu-12-04-windows-7/

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