Launching applications on remote windows xp from ubuntu 10.04 machine

I have ubuntu 10.04 installed on my machine. I want to execute commands on remote windows xp machine ( I have username and password of admin account of remote machine ) so as to launch application like Internet Explorer, Notepad or some bat script. Is there any command line utility to do this via ubuntu开发者_StackOverflow中文版? I tried rdesktop, winexe, ssh, telnet but they are not much of use. Can you please suggest some other way?

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If you are able to install software on the Windows machine, you can use a Virtual Network Computing software (UltraVNC and RealVNC are good).

This will let you connect and interact as if you were in front of the machine.