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me and my lab partner were just messing around with it, is there a way that the other computer can accept it automaticaly?

there wouldn't be anyone home to click the yes buttons
 
Originally posted by: BriGy86
me and my lab partner were just messing around with it, is there a way that the other computer can accept it automaticaly?

there wouldn't be anyone home to click the yes buttons
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yes, you need to set up "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer" NOT the "Remote Assistance" option in the remote tab of system properties.
 
Originally posted by: BriGy86
me and my lab partner were just messing around with it, is there a way that the other computer can accept it automaticaly?

there wouldn't be anyone home to click the yes buttons
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Remote Desktop != Remote Assistance.
 
Originally posted by: Syringer
I can set it up easily over my wireless network, but how do I do it from a differnet network? Any good links for it?
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open port 3389 on your router and foward to computer.
 
Originally posted by: fs5
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Damn, I thought only the host has to have XP Pro? 🙁
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yeah you can download the client here :
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools/rdclientdl.mspx

This software package will install the client portion of Remote Desktop on any of the following operating systems: Windows 95, Windows 98 and 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000. (This is the same version of the client software as in Windows XP Service Pack 1.) When run, this software allows older Windows platforms to remotely connect to a computer running Windows XP Professional with Remote Desktop enabled.
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Both XP home and XP pro have the RDP client built in to connect automatically. Only XP pro allows you to host an RDP session though.

 
Originally posted by: Syringer
I can set it up easily over my wireless network, but how do I do it from a differnet network? Any good links for it?
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You could setup a VPN tunnel on one of the computers at the house. (Windows has it built in, or use SSL Explorer over at Sourceforge)
 
Originally posted by: rh71
you're not a real geek until you remote desktop to a machine then remote to another machine. 😉 I've done it with Remote Administrator + PCAnywhere... not XP's own though.
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Heh.. the other day I was on a W2k machine troubleshooting a printing issue. I had to reset the spooler on the print server but the vnc wasn't working. I installed the RD client, RD'd into my machine and then dameware'd into the print server. I would've RD'd straight into the print server, but it's a W2k server and doesn't host RD connections.
 
Originally posted by: Tremulant
Originally posted by: rh71
you're not a real geek until you remote desktop to a machine then remote to another machine. 😉 I've done it with Remote Administrator + PCAnywhere... not XP's own though.
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Heh.. the other day I was on a W2k machine troubleshooting a printing issue. I had to reset the spooler on the print server but the vnc wasn't working. I installed the RD client, RD'd into my machine and then dameware'd into the print server. I would've RD'd straight into the print server, but it's a W2k server and doesn't host RD connections.
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Setup Terminal Services on the Win2k machine and you can use RDC to connect. I do this with all the servers at work.
 
i used it all the time at college....campuswide wifi + remote desktop = fun 🙂...especially nice when you didn't have a file, and didn't have that directory shared...
 
I was using it at home to control my Audio Server PC but when I went int through RD and then went into the Ctrl Panel, it changes my sound card to None. WHen I lookedin WinAmp it had the sound card lsited as Microsoft RDP Driver. It was wanting to send the audio from the server through the RD connection to my laptop so I coudl play it there. However that's not what I wanted to do so I just started using UltraVNC and it's great as well.
 
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: Tremulant
Originally posted by: rh71
you're not a real geek until you remote desktop to a machine then remote to another machine. 😉 I've done it with Remote Administrator + PCAnywhere... not XP's own though.
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Heh.. the other day I was on a W2k machine troubleshooting a printing issue. I had to reset the spooler on the print server but the vnc wasn't working. I installed the RD client, RD'd into my machine and then dameware'd into the print server. I would've RD'd straight into the print server, but it's a W2k server and doesn't host RD connections.
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Setup Terminal Services on the Win2k machine and you can use RDC to connect. I do this with all the servers at work.
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I think some of them have that setup, but that one doesn't. It doesn't happen very often.. and that server is getting rebuilt in about a month. (going to AD and all 2003 servers.. fun)
 
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I was using it at home to control my Audio Server PC but when I went int through RD and then went into the Ctrl Panel, it changes my sound card to None. WHen I lookedin WinAmp it had the sound card lsited as Microsoft RDP Driver. It was wanting to send the audio from the server through the RD connection to my laptop so I coudl play it there. However that's not what I wanted to do so I just started using UltraVNC and it's great as well.
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If you look on the Local Resources tab of RDC, you will see an option called Remote Computer Sound. Choose Leave at Remote Computer
 
I'm looking to create a secure remote desktop connection from work/school to my home PC. Would you suggest using VNC or Remote Desktop. Any easy to use tools to set this up securly?
 
Originally posted by: LeonarD26
I'm looking to create a secure remote desktop connection from work/school to my home PC. Would you suggest using VNC or Remote Desktop. Any easy to use tools to set this up securly?
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I'm still not quite sure what the difference is. One's through IE and one isn't?
 
Originally posted by: LeonarD26
I'm looking to create a secure remote desktop connection from work/school to my home PC. Would you suggest using VNC or Remote Desktop. Any easy to use tools to set this up securly?
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remote desktop is a bit more secure than VNC.

 
Originally posted by: archcommus
Originally posted by: LeonarD26
I'm looking to create a secure remote desktop connection from work/school to my home PC. Would you suggest using VNC or Remote Desktop. Any easy to use tools to set this up securly?
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I'm still not quite sure what the difference is. One's through IE and one isn't?
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No.

Remote Desktop
- Server is built into Windows XP Pro and Windows 200X Server
- Client is a seperate program that is included with XP Pro & XP Home and can be downloaded and run from basically any Microsoft Operating system
- You enable RDP on the server and then connect to it with the client

VNC
- Freeware remote control program that can be installed on just about any Microsoft operating system (and a lot of the *nix's)
- You launch the server client on the machine you want to contol
- Connect to it with the viewer client on the machine you are controlling from

Both remote control methods have clients that you can install that allow you to control a PC with internet explorer instead of using a remote control client.
 
Originally posted by: Syringer
Those last two replies to me are beyond my networking capabilities 😕
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Hey Spider, go to your router setup page ( probably 192.168.1.1), look for a menu called security/port forwarding etc etc...

figure out your ip (start->run->cmd->ipconfig) and forward the port 3389 to it. Basically you're telling your router that okay any connections coming into port 3389 I want to route them to computer x.
 
Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Damn, I thought only the host has to have XP Pro? 🙁
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Consider Ultr@VNC instead.

Installing the Mirror Video Driver is advised. Processor utilization drops to nearly nothing.
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What are the pro's and con's of RD vs VNC?

Here's a recap of my situation:
1 Windows XP Home and 1 Windows XP Pro machine
Want to be able to control the XP Pro machine via WiFi or through the intarweb
Free or cheap

That's about it 🙂
 
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