Vista Premium - Remote Desktop Connection

[colddove]

Can anyone tell me why they didn't include it with at least Premium? Also,
are there anyways of connecting to a Premium machine using any form of
remote desktop?

 

[Dave]

Dunno..

You can use VNC, (I use TightVNC) or LogMeIn.
https://secure.logmein.com/products/free/

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

It was a business decision to include RD hosting only in Business and
Ultimate. Home Premium is meant for a stand-alone machine in the user's
(guess what?) home. You cannot use HP as an RD host, but there are third
party tools that will do this.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Can anyone tell me why they didn't include it with at least Premium? Also,
are there anyways of connecting to a Premium machine using any form of
remote desktop?

Vista Home Premium does not have the advanced networking that the
professional editions have, as it is a consumer home version, just like XP
Home Edition.

You could use a version of VNC instead. I recommend UltraVNC. It's free.

http://www.uvnc.com/


There are other programs, but one that I find very useful as well is
TeamViewer. It's very easy for me to show friends how to get it running on
their machine when they want me to connect to them to sort their machine
out. It's much simpler to configure than VNC. This is free too, for
personal use.

http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx


ss.

 

[Guest]

You could also look into doing the Vista Anytime Upgrade to upgrade to Vista
Ultimate, which would allow you to keep all the media related functions of
Home Premium AND get the advanced networking features of Business(i.e. RDP).
You would also gain BitLocker drive encryption. I think it is in the $180
range, so it's not cheap, but it is worth it if you are a power user.

 

[Lang Murphy]

Can anyone tell me why they didn't include it with at least Premium? Also,
are there anyways of connecting to a Premium machine using any form of
remote desktop?

As others have responded... Vista Home <Basic/Premium> follows the XP
convention of providing RDC... in XP, Home did not offer the ability to act
as an RDC host, only Pro and MCE (based on Pro) offered that.

And... as others have responded... VNC works and it's free.

Lang