remote desktop question (s)

[Dubb]

ok, I don't know much about RD or how it works, but here's my basic dillemma...

I'm an architecture student, and I do alot of 3d/cad/cam work. I have a studio at school, with an old PIII-M laptop, and a (hella fast) network connection through the University. The laptop tends to slow down when crunching large models and such, so I'm thinking that maybe I could use RD to do my work on my home desktop (a 3.2GHz dell 400sc from the HD forum) when in studio, and save the lost time due to a slow computer.

possibly important facts:
home apt. has a cable connection, linksys router, and runs sygate Personal firewall Pro. both computers have WinXP Pro

I'm pretty sure this will work, but will the computer speed increase be negated by going over remote desktop?

~dubb

 

[Isezumi00]

it would be mostly be dependent on the size of the files that you are trying to send across to the desktop.,

Because you are basically trying to compare a bottle necking CPU for a "bottlenecking" network connection, if the cable connection is going to be a bottleneck, you are going to have to deal with it hitting you twice, once on the Tx and once on the Rx.

Also, have you tried streaming anything from the campus to your residence previously. I would imagine that a university would be watching the ports that RD surfs on pretty closely because it's a commonly used exploit. Assuming all that checks out, would you be able a second person that you could sync with over the phone to get this whole thing setup. Generally endeavours like this tend not to be the kinda thing where you can setup one side go to class and setup the other and your in the clear.

Anyway, just some thoughts...

 

[Accord99]

It should work very well. RD is basically Terminal Services and similar in concept to Citrix Metaframe, where clients run application sessions from central servers, which do all the processing. RD is extremely bandwidth friendly, I find RD over a dial-up connection to be more responsive than VNC over a fast ethernet network. With a fast local network, it would be virtually the same as logging in locally.

The one area where RD may not work, is if you're using 3D acceleration, as RD does not use the local video card drivers.

 

[Dubb]

darn...was hoping my gffx would be able to help out at least a little...(laptop has a 16mb mobility radeon)...going to a 3.2 processor should help considerably though...

so how does it get away with not using the desktop's graphics drivers? do I need to install the mobility drivers on the desktop as well? seems odd.

next question: what ports do I need to forward and can that be changed (if it is used as an exploit)?

went through some of the XP info files on it...I need to configure a WINS service?
is there a good tutorial on this somewhere?

thanks for all the help,
~Dubb

 

[CigarSmokedByClinton]

I have a file server running XP in the basement, connected to my main machine upstairs via a 100 Mbs network. I RD down to it for various reasons, and it is almost as quick as being there with a keyboard mouse. But I have tried watching .avis and divx over the RD connection, and it is very choppy(unwatchable). I do not know whether CAD redraws will act more as general windows usage or as media player. I'm thinking the former.

You do not have to load your ATI drivers on the desktop at school. I don't know if it will use your laptop's card for hardware accelleration though. RD will take care of all those techincal things. You merely have to go to Windowskey - Pause (Press at same time) go to the Remote tab, and make sure you allow connections (On your desktop) Then make sure you have a username which has permissions for RD (I use the administrator account, maybe a bad idea over the net instead of over my home network, don't know how secure it is). Then (assuming you have a static IP address at school), you just type in the IP address in the RD client on your laptop, and it should work.

Let us know how it works!

Cigar

 

[Nebor]

I have 2 comps w/ XP home.... no remote desktop for me?