Making rdesktop work with VMware hosting XP on Feisty
| tags: ubuntu
Here is what I had to do to get rdesktop to connect to XP Professional installed on VMware Workstation 6 running on Feisty.
In the guest XP system added a password for my account and turned on Remote Desktop in the System control panel applet on the Remote tab.
I edited /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf
and added the line
3389 = 192.168.72.128:3389
in the [incomingtcp]
section.
Then I edited /etc/systl.conf
to change the IPv4 forwarding line:
# Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4
net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding=1
Then I rebooted.
Now I started VMware and activated the guest XP system. Now the command:
rdesktop localhost
Works as expected.