You can use ssh/x-win to connect to Rice networks. A VPN account is needed in many cases. For windows users, the remote desktop feature of windows XP professional is a nice tool to use. (See Slava's article about this in the how-to section.). You may also want to try VNC, which is platform independent and has some good features. For example, under Linux, you can have several VNC server sessions which are all independent virtual desktops.