A Network Attached Windows Box?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday April 7, 2004 @10:45AM from the this-shouldn't-be-too-hard dept.

Richard Weidmann asks: "Can a Windows box be attached to a local network as freely available resource? I use Mac OS X and Linux but sometimes it is simply convenient to have a Windows computer to do some specific task or run some specific program. I would like to run my Windows computer headless in the network in such a fashion that I can access it easily from the other computers such that: VLC is started, so I see the Windows desktop; the home directory of my current machine is mounted on the Windows box; and my local optical drive can be read from the Windows machine. Has anybody seen such a setup or project?"

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A Network Attached Windows Box? by pizza_milkshake · 2004-04-07 10:59 · Score: 4, Funny

i wouldn't do that.
Re:Terminal Services by GiMP · 2004-04-07 11:08 · Score: 5, Funny

There is also a 180-day evaluation of Windows 2003 Server. You have to reinstall every 180 days but you have to do that anyway.