Win 98 and Win XP Home Remote Desktop

[Doug]

I am trying to do a remote connection between an office
PC that runs Win 98 on DSL with a home PC that runs Win
XP Home on a dial-up. I have downloaded Remote Desktop
onto the Office Win 98 PC and this is where I get totally
confused as to what to do at this point. The office PC I
want to set as the host and the home PC as the client.
I'm not sure what I need to do to get the connection
between the two that is easy to understand and
configure. I have extremely limited knowledge on how to
do this and the I can't seem to locate how to get these
two systems to communciate.....any help would be greatly
appreciated!

 

[Sooner Al]

You can *NOT* access/control a W98 box using Remote Desktop from a XP box. So...In your situation
look at VNC or NetMeeting RDS to access/control a remote W98 machine. Get the VNC server and client
from...

http://www.realvnc.com

NetMeeting is built-in to XP and 2000 and can *NOT* be upgraded. Get the latest version of
NetMeeting from W98 from...

http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting

Look at this KB article for help with RDS...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;233175

If this is over the public internet, then keep in mind the VNC data link is *NOT* encrypted like the
NetMeeting RDS link is, if that matters to you. Some folks run VNC through SSH or VPN tunnels.

Also...Danijel Tkalcec posted this awhile back. I have not used it, but it may be of interest.

*****************************
Take a look at this set of tools:
www.deltasoft.hr/remote

Free, small, no-installation, easy-to-use, fast, secure, works over Internet and Local Networks.
*****************************

Please let us, ie. the group, know how it works, if in fact you try it...

 

[Doug]

THANK YOU for that uselful info. Are there advantages in
using SSH Tunnels over VNC Tunnels or vise versa?

Doug

-----Original Message-----
You can *NOT* access/control a W98 box using Remote

Desktop from a XP box. So...In your situation

look at VNC or NetMeeting RDS to access/control a remote

W98 machine. Get the VNC server and client

from...

http://www.realvnc.com

NetMeeting is built-in to XP and 2000 and can *NOT* be

upgraded. Get the latest version of

NetMeeting from W98 from...

http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting

Look at this KB article for help with RDS...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;233175

If this is over the public internet, then keep in mind

the VNC data link is *NOT* encrypted like the

NetMeeting RDS link is, if that matters to you. Some

folks run VNC through SSH or VPN tunnels.

Also...Danijel Tkalcec posted this awhile back. I have

not used it, but it may be of interest.

*****************************
Take a look at this set of tools:
www.deltasoft.hr/remote

Free, small, no-installation, easy-to-use, fast, secure,

works over Internet and Local Networks.