control desktop with laptop using cable in between ???

[Guest]

have dell inspiron 1100 with win xp home ed. desktop has xp prof ed. need to
operate the desktop from the lap. the lap will be in a vocal booth in a
recording studio. a friend told me i could do this using an ethernet cable
connecting the two computers and configuring them with the connection wizard.
i got lost when i opened the connection wizard. can this even be done ?
maybe i need to connect through a serial or parallel port ? i was unable to
pull up the connection wizard on the lap with xp home ed.

would app any help
signed: lost in the woods aka 5string

 

[David Candy]

Yes. Establish a network connection. Then use remote assistance to ask the laptop for help then give control to the laptop. You can use ethernet, serial, parallel, or USB to make a network connection.

Remote Assistance will show screen on both computers and take mouse and keyboard from the laptop untill someone presses escape (i think) key on the desktop.

 

[Richard Urban]

Don't you want remote desktop (as against remote assistance)? That way the
second computer does not need anyone in attendance to initiate a connection
(just for the initial setup). Also, can remote desktop be used between XP
Home and XP Professional? I am believing that you need two instances of
Professional for remote desktop, but hey - I have been wrong before! (-:

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"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
Yes. Establish a network connection. Then use remote assistance to ask the
laptop for help then give control to the laptop. You can use ethernet,
serial, parallel, or USB to make a network connection.

Remote Assistance will show screen on both computers and take mouse and
keyboard from the laptop untill someone presses escape (i think) key on the
desktop.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

The host machine must run WinXP Professional (or Win2000/2003
Server). The remote machine can run any flavour of Windows (well,
perhaps not Windows for Workgroups...)

 

[David Candy]

Remote Desktop in netmeeting work between all MS's OSs since 95 (and maybe there were 3.1 versions too).

In fact I've not used XP at all and use Netmeeting as I don't assume XP to XP only. Type Conf in Start Run. Although I used a lot of terminal server on 2000 server (from 2000 clients).

You can use RA in either XP's one or Netmeeting (where is called Shared Desktop I think). Again I've only used NM's.

Could be a terminology thing but I wouldn't use the word control to describe RD. I use the term terminal server with a concept of merely running the code on a remote CPU. But I've recieved a lot of MS propaganda over the years about clients running code on servers (so they can rent software). So I thought RA was closest.

 

[David Candy]

Anyway I need remote assistence, there is a spider hanging in the air two foot away at eye level. It is blocking the route to the chemical weapons dump (Baygon, Mortein, and Mortein Outside).

H e l p

 

[Guest]

thanks 4 the response guys-- after reading all the replies, there seems to b
some uncertainty regarding the two editions of xp that i have to work with.

i'm not a computer guru, i'm probably somewhere between beginner >
intermediate, so i'll need to get some of the basics out of the way. by
host, do you mean the computer(desktop) that i want to control ? what is
meant by the term netmeeting and how could i use it for what i want to
accomplish ?

would VERY MUCH app a step by step on how to configure. do i need to use
the "new connection wizard" to configure the settings ? do i need to
configure the laptop as well ? if so, how? would i be better off going
thru a serial, parallel,or usb port rather than ethernet.

as you can see, i really am lost in the woods and help would truly b app.

 

[David Candy]

Create a network connection however you want to. All 4 are just as easy as one another. What hardware do you have - use that (however you need special network cable if connecting card to card rather than via a hub/switch/router and ditto for parralel).

Type conf in start run

Use Remote Desktop or Shared Desktop.
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thanks 4 the response guys-- after reading all the replies, there seems to b
some uncertainty regarding the two editions of xp that i have to work with.

i'm not a computer guru, i'm probably somewhere between beginner >
intermediate, so i'll need to get some of the basics out of the way. by
host, do you mean the computer(desktop) that i want to control ? what is
meant by the term netmeeting and how could i use it for what i want to
accomplish ?

would VERY MUCH app a step by step on how to configure. do i need to use
the "new connection wizard" to configure the settings ? do i need to
configure the laptop as well ? if so, how? would i be better off going
thru a serial, parallel,or usb port rather than ethernet.

as you can see, i really am lost in the woods and help would truly b app.