A Network Attached Windows Box?

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?"

Comments

Just use VMware or Wine!

[Krik Johnson]

Why face the security holes of Windows when you can run Windows Apps in Linux! These two apps neeed more publicty then they have! Wine - Lets you run Windows applications on Linux Run Windows on Linux in a sandbox!. Be a good slashdotter, don't let Windows on the network, use the Penguin!

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[sepluv]

I use Mac OS X and Linux but sometimes it is simply convenient to have a Windows computer to do some specific task

I agree, windows can be convenient for some things, but I think you will find most OS's come with windows these days.

MacOS X already comes with a very nice windows system. Also, have you tried using XWindows on GNU/Linux?

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