Can't my wife and I both log into our home PC at the same time?

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My home PC's running XP SP2 with all the updates. I also have my office
laptop. I disabled the fast-user switching feature (the empty blue login
screen) so that my home pc would act like my office laptop. That is, we have
to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to log in, and logging out to let my wife switch to
her account means I have to close all my programs first. It's annoying, but
the office IT guy said that would make our home PC much more secure.

Sometimes when I'm at work, I need to access my home PC and I use Remote
Connection and it works fine when no one's home. But when my wife comes home
and logs in, that logs me out from my remote session.

Any way to make it so that we can both use our home PC simultaneously?

Thanks in advance.
 
Harlan said:
My home PC's running XP SP2 with all the updates. I also have my
office laptop. I disabled the fast-user switching feature (the
empty blue login screen) so that my home pc would act like my office
laptop. That is, we have to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to log in, and
logging out to let my wife switch to her account means I have to
close all my programs first. It's annoying, but the office IT guy
said that would make our home PC much more secure.

Sometimes when I'm at work, I need to access my home PC and I use
Remote Connection and it works fine when no one's home. But when my
wife comes home and logs in, that logs me out from my remote session.

Any way to make it so that we can both use our home PC simultaneously?

Thanks in advance.
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Yes and no..
Assuming XP Professional, there is an unsupported hack out there to allow
multiple Remote Desktop connections..
Google for it.
 
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, one such hack, apparently involving an
SP2 RC1 version of termsrv.dll, did not work for me. I think it's because I
have disabled the XP feature called fast user switching, which my office IT
people tell me is not a good idea.

Oh, well...maybe the next windows version will finally support family
computing to the fullest!
 
Well, I use Fast User Switching on my home XP Pro PC's. Personally I don't consider it a risk...

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Any way in standard Win XP Pro to allow for multiple users logged on at the
same time, one remotely and the other locally? Both accounts are
non-Administrator accounts.

If not within standard Windows, any third party software that would allow it?

Thanks a bunch,
Eduardo
 
Look at using VNC (any flavor). Personally I use and recommend UltraVNC. Get the server, client and
encryption plug-in from...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

Note its not really like UNIX where you can have multiple X sessions going at one time...

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