How to use Remmina or any alternative to connect to windows 7?

Question

I'm new here & I just tried to connect to windows 7 on my laptop from Ubuntu 12.04 on my pc. First i tried tsclient but i couldn't isntall it on Ubuntu 12.04. Then I tried Remmina. The problem now is I can't use it, I dunno how I should configure it. I tried some ways by myself but they didn't work.

Is there any guidance about using Remmina or anything else which helps me plz?

Answer 1

First you should setup Windows to enable remote desktop connection (choose a user, password) then finally open Remmina, choose RDP protocol, type username/password (configured in Windows RDP), ip address of your laptop with windows and voila!

Answer 2

When you start remmina you get this window

(but without any entries), click on the green "plus" to get the following window

Here you must enter the remote machine's IP-address (or name), your username/password on the remote machine (if you leave the password out you are prompted for it during the actual connection) and the domain/workgroup to use.

The other tabs can stay as they are (for the moment at least). Now first click save, then connect, the remote machine will "appear".