In addition to what others have mentioned, you ought to be able to use VNC for this purpose; you can use it via a remote X client, a remote Win32 client, or a Java client (i.e., your browser) to control the host machine's desktop. http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org