Creating XP Desktop icons on Mint Desktop

[jimwg]

Greetings!

I regularly use Remmina on my Maya XFCE flash drive (on a laptop) via wifi to my XP desktop, but what I'd really like to do is what I used to on a Mac, that is create icons of my XP desktop on my Mint desktop to open like a regular file. It's really complicated for this non-techie to tinker with the Network menu and such. Are there any step by step instructions on accomplishing this?

Thanks!

Jim in NYC

[CaptainDangeax]

Greetings!

I regularly use Remmina on my Maya XFCE flash drive (on a laptop) via wifi to my XP desktop, but what I'd really like to do is what I used to on a Mac, that is create icons of my XP desktop on my Mint desktop to open like a regular file. It's really complicated for this non-techie to tinker with the Network menu and such. Are there any step by step instructions on accomplishing this?

Thanks!

Jim in NYC

Hi.

I'm having the same use. What I did is
-writing a script named myremoteconnection.sh located in /usr/local/bin containing :

#!/bin/bash
rdesktop -u myusername -p mypassword -g 1152x864 IP_address_of_my_target

-Changing the script to executable by running once

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/myremoteconnection.sh

-Creating a desktop shortcut to the script.

Obviously the "-g 1152x864" is the size of the window I want to run in. You could write whatever you want here.