VNC form XP to Ubuntu?

[faelin]

Hello all.
If this has been asked before, please point me to the proper thread.
I have a client who uses XP Pro at work. She has been connecting to her work PC using Hamachi and RealVNC so she can work from home on her home PC (XP Home).
She is discovering the limitations of bloated OSs as the updates pile up for XP and the performance spirals down.
I think with her slightly older machine, Ubuntu would be a good fit. All she really use it for is iPods and pictures which Ubuntu handles fine... much better than XP for sure!
My question, after all that, is she able to still connect to her XP machine at the office in similar fashion using an Ubuntu machine from home? Can Hamachi and/or RealVNC run on Linux using Wine? Or is there a better way?
I found this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=135036 but I open to a better way.
Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
-Faelin

[eldragon]

there is already a vnc client installed by default on ubuntu, its called vinagre. if its not, then its in the repos.

you could suggest her to you remote desktop instead of vnc. she only needs a password protected account on the winxp machine and have it enabled.
there is a client for it on ubuntu too, called rdesktop.

works much better than vnc

[FrostyFlames]

If you want to connect to XP that has VNC installed, from the Ubuntu box you can use "vncviewer". If you really wanted to you could make a shortcut on the Ubuntu desktop that would run the vncviewer program with most of the information part of the arguments.

As for Hamachi, it can be run on Linux as well.

Checkout http://linux.die.net/man/1/vncviewer.

[faelin]

Excellent! Thank you both for the valuable information.
I am still a noobe with Linux, but I have definitely had the Kool Aid and am all about showing people they don't need bloated operating systems anymore. This was my biggest point, so thank you!