Can I use remote assistance (invite) from machine I access with RD

[craig8]

The computer I am at is a windows XP pro at home on the company vpn.
I access a windows xp machine at work with remote desktop connection.
Occassionally I want to let a coworker access that logged in session to help
with a problem. I really do not want to have to give them my logon
id/password.

Can I use remote assistance and invite them? I tried that but they could
not take control. So I wondered if remote assistance and remote desktop
cannot play together?

If they won't work together, how can I "share" a Remote desktop logged-on
session?
Can any 3rd party tools do this, with or without Remote desktop as the
remote access method?

thanks

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Perhaps this may be of some help...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279656

....or this...

http://www.xpunlimited.com/index.html

FWIW, Remote Assistance and Remote Desktop both use TCP Port 3389
(default) so simultaneous sessions probably are not possible. I have
never tried what your trying however.

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