I Need Help With Remote Desktop

[Guest]

Greetings,
I was toying with the use of remote desktop and I was thinking I could use
it for my mother's computer as well as my sister's computer. I have both
their i.p. addresses, but they both say it is not enabled on their computer.
What is the deal?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Greetings,
I was toying with the use of remote desktop and I was thinking I could use
it for my mother's computer as well as my sister's computer. I have both
their i.p. addresses, but they both say it is not enabled on their computer.
What is the deal?

Remote Desktop is available for WinXP Professional but not
for WinXP Home. Furthermore it is not well suited to support
other people because their screen goes blank when you start
an RDP session from your own machine. WinVNC might be
a better solution, and it's free too.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Greetings,
I was toying with the use of remote desktop and I was thinking I could use
it for my mother's computer as well as my sister's computer. I have both
their i.p. addresses, but they both say it is not enabled on their
computer.
What is the deal?

Basics -

a) they need XP Pro
b) they need to enable RD in control panel, system, and allow the user
account(s) they wish
c) the user account you use needs to have a password
d) port 3389 needs to be opened inbound in their firewalls/routers, and the
ISP can't be blocking that port

 

[norm]

Remote Desktop is available for WinXP Professional but not
for WinXP Home. Furthermore it is not well suited to support
other people because their screen goes blank when you start
an RDP session from your own machine. WinVNC might be
a better solution, and it's free too.

See there is a default.rdp file in my documents folder, XP home.
Can anyone explain?
I am confused?
thanks

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

See there is a default.rdp file in my documents folder, XP home.
Can anyone explain?
I am confused?
thanks

The Remote Desktop host must be a WinXP Professional
machine. The Remote Desktop client can be just about any
flavour of Windows. .rdp files reside on the client, never
on the host.

 

[norm]

The Remote Desktop host must be a WinXP Professional
machine. The Remote Desktop client can be just about any
flavour of Windows. .rdp files reside on the client, never
on the host.

thanks, the default.rdp suddenly appeared after a "no room on c: "
when trying to save a .doc in Word97 after editing a shared file!