Windows XP Professional to Vista Home Premium Remote Desktop Conne

[Guest]

The remote desktop client is included in all editions of Vista. What is not
supported in Home Premium is incoming remote destkop connections, how can I
get it to enable incoming connections from XP Pro?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Home Premium cannot be the host, only a client. You would have to use a
third party product.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Alfred Kaufmann]

Hosting should be available on all versions! Microsoft is assuming
that everyone using computers is capable of sending out a request for
remote assistance - they are not!

Ak

 

[Rick Rogers]

Um, so if they can't use RA where they can control access of the helper,
then they should be allowed to use RD where they have no control over the
remote user? No, don't think so. Bad idea.

RD is not designed as an remote assistance tool, it is for users to access
their base machine to work remotely.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

My tech guys at work are telling me that because I have Vista Home Premium I
will not be able to use RDC to access my desktop at work. From what I've
been reading, wouldn't that mean my vista laptop would be the client and not
the host and that I should be able to do this? I can get the connection
through our VPN site but when I try to do the RDC to my IP it will not
connect. Am I wasting my time trying to find the fix? Should I just upgrade
to Vista Ultimate?

 

[Guest]

I am able to use Windows Vista Ultimate (home) as a client to connect to an
XP host (VPN at work). What I have so far been unable to do is go the other
way -- use my XP at work to connect to my Vista Ultimate host, even though I
have followed all of the setup procedures.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Check that Ultimate is set to allow connections from any version of Windows,
and that if the system is behind a router port forwarding is enabled for
3389.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Rick:
Had done both of those. Still no joy.
-Rick

 

[Michael Price]

There is an RDP client update out for XP. Have you tried that?