Control a Windows box from a Mac?

[Don Bruder]

OK, here's the deal -
I've just been handed a Windows box. It came complete with a fresh
install of Windows XP, 30-ish gigs of open HD space, "some" RAM (enough
that it can be booted, at least - beyond that, I haven't yet figured out
how to look closely enough to say) and a power cord.

I want it for precisely one purpose - running a particular program whose
owners/authors have explicitly stated "there is not, and never will be,
a Mac equivalent" special-purpose program that will only be used
sporadically.

So I propose to hook it into my LAN, headless, keyboard-free, and sans
rodent, then use Chicken Of The VNC to control it from one of my
multiple Macs.

If needed, as I suspect will be the case, I'll transplant one of my
Macs' monitor/keyboard/rodent sets to it to configure it, but that
transplant will be only temporary, and beyond the initial setup, I'd
prefer to pretend the beast doesn't exist unless I'm actively running
the program in question.

Can anyone point me at what I need to do this? Feel free to assume
(semi-correctly) that I'm a complete N00B to anything more advanced than
Internet Explorer (or equivalent/better - as in Firefox) and *VERY*
minor tweaking of settings in the Windows environment. Here in
"Mac-land", I'm quite functional, up to and including writing my own
programs, but in "WindowsWorld", I have to confess that I don't even
know what questions to ask - hand me a "canned" program on a Windows
box, and I can almost certainly figure out how to run it. But figuring
out what program I actually want in the first place is a non-starter due
to my nearly total ignorance of Windows.

Any solutions for me?

(Cross-posted to comp.sys.mac.system and 3 seemingly windows-related
groups that look like they ought to be relevant - To any advocacy type
folks who might be reading, please save your effort - I'm not interested
in the relative merits of either system - I'm a Mac user forced into
trying to use Windows by the need for a single program that can't be had
otherwise)

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In article <kinkoh$5tp$5...@dont-email.me>, Don Bruder <D...@sonic.net>
wrote:

It's pretty straightforward. I do so frequently.
See:

<http://bit.ly/11Aj77a>

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[Suze]

In article <kinkoh$5tp$5...@dont-email.me>, Don Bruder <D...@sonic.net>
wrote:

> So I propose to hook it into my LAN, headless, keyboard-free, and sans
> rodent, then use Chicken Of The VNC to control it from one of my
> multiple Macs.

Could you possibly use a KVM switchbox and just change to the windows
box at will? I do this all the time with my PC work laptop.
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[Davoud]

Don Bruder:

> So I propose to hook it into my LAN, headless, keyboard-free, and sans
> rodent, then use Chicken Of The VNC to control it from one of my
> multiple Macs.

I do something analogous from time to time. I use Microsoft's "Remote
Desktop Connection," which is a free application for the Mac. Easy,
works like a charm.

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[Barry OGrady]

Probably the best way would be to run Windows on the Mac.

[Jolly Roger]

In article <240320132346526829%st...@sky.net>, Davoud <st...@sky.net>
wrote:

> Don Bruder:
> > So I propose to hook it into my LAN, headless, keyboard-free, and sans
> > rodent, then use Chicken Of The VNC to control it from one of my
> > multiple Macs.
>
> I do something analogous from time to time. I use Microsoft's "Remote
> Desktop Connection," which is a free application for the Mac. Easy,
> works like a charm.

I use RDC for this too. Much easier than setting up a VNC server on the
Windows box and so on, and RDC sometimes works in situations where VNC
won't.

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