Remote Desktopping To PC On Home LAN?

[(PeteCresswell)]

(I tried this yesterday in comp.os.windows.misc, but no nibbles)
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Seems like I was able to do this at one time, but not having any
luck right now.

Fire up Remote Desktop, tell it to look for available PCs, and on
one box it just presents an empty "Available computers" dialog.

On the other box that same dialog as an icon for my home work
group. When I try to expand the icon, it says "The 303
domain/workgroup does not contain any Terminal servers."

Any chance of getting a connection?

My agenda is that I'm building a DTV server and I want it to live
in a wiring closet with no monitor or keyboard attached.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

(I tried this yesterday in comp.os.windows.misc, but no nibbles)
---------------------------------------------------------------

Seems like I was able to do this at one time, but not having any
luck right now.

Fire up Remote Desktop, tell it to look for available PCs, and on
one box it just presents an empty "Available computers" dialog.

On the other box that same dialog as an icon for my home work
group. When I try to expand the icon, it says "The 303
domain/workgroup does not contain any Terminal servers."

Any chance of getting a connection?

My agenda is that I'm building a DTV server and I want it to live
in a wiring closet with no monitor or keyboard attached.

That never would have worked unless you've got Terminal Servers. You would
always need to type in the computer name manually in your remote desktop
client.

You might check out the free version of VisionAPP Remote Desktop Manager.

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]:

That never would have worked unless you've got Terminal Servers. You would
always need to type in the computer name manually in your remote desktop
client.

Now it's working (by typing computer name)

Dunno what was going on before - but probably user RCI.

Thanks

 

[Big_Al]

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] said this on 2/15/2009 11:20 AM:

That never would have worked unless you've got Terminal Servers. You would
always need to type in the computer name manually in your remote desktop
client.

You might check out the free version of VisionAPP Remote Desktop Manager.

And you know you can't remote desktop to an XP home. Pro only provides
the "listen" feature. And you do have to turn it on, its not on by
default.