PCAnywhere stop responding after using Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection...

[Andy]

I've found a strange problem between PCAnywhere (ver. 10.51) and
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (ver. 5.1.2600).

I've been using PCAnywhere for a while now (about 2 years) and it's
been working fine for me. Recently I've heard that MS RDC offers
greater connection speed so I decided to give it a go. After enabling
the MS RDC service at the host PC and installing the client software
on my remote PC, I was successfully connected to the host PC with a
faster connection speed compared to PCA I used. However, as MS RDC
doesn't offer any file transferring functionality, one day I switched
back to PCA as I need to transfer some files between my two PCs. This
is where the problem started.

Strangely, PCA seems successfully found my host PC but was unable to
let me log into it and displaying only a blank/black screen (looks
like the one before PCA display the log-in dialog). I then use MS RDC
to log into my host PC and make sure that PCA service is running and
both my username and password are correct, which they are as no
changes was made. Then I tried again with PCA and the same result
(described above) happened again.

I did manage to reconnect using PCA only after I restarted the host
PC. Everything was fine (I was using PCA only durning this period)
until I started to use MS RDC again to access the remote PC (because
of its faster speed). After using MS RDC, the PCA just seem to stop
responding again and displaying nothing but a blank/black screen...

Is there a compatibility or conflict issue between these two
software...? Any help on this issue is much appreciated.

Here is my software setup:
Host OS: Windows XP SP1 (with latest Windows updates installed)
Remote OS: Windows XP SP1 & Windows 2000 SP4 (both with latest Windows
updates installed)
PCA: 10.51
MS RDC: 5.1.2600

 

[purplehaz]

You certainly can transfer files using remote desktop a number of different
ways.
1 - you can connect to host, right click your file on either machine, switch
to desktop of other machine, right click in explorer or on the desktop and
choose paste.
2 - connect to host with the option checked to connect to disk drives, once
connected open explorer and the drives for both computers will now be
listed. You can now copy/paste, drag and drop, just like you do on your
local machine in explorer. When your connected woth remote desktop and you
have the option to connect to the disk drives checked you can copy files
just like you would in a normal local xp session. Explorer acts exactly the
same.
So now since you can transfer files, just forget PCA, uninstall it and be
done. I don't like it cause last I heard it still sent your password in
plain text format in the packet. Anyone viewing that packet could get your
password very easily. Might be different now I don't know.
If you use remote desktop I reccomend doing two things:
1 - change the port remote desktop listens on, cause the default port of
3389 is well known.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306759
2 - password protect all user accounts and change the hidden admin user
name. Do this in local security policies.