WinXP RDP to Windows 2000

[Harley]

Hello,

I will try to be as clear as possbile, but this is new to me.

I have an older PC running windows 2000 that I would like to put in my
basement and control from my WinXP PC in my office. I have a simple
home network sharing my DSL. Everying seems to be working fine.

Yesterday I tried to setup the RDP in WinXP to do this. I followed
several articles and this is what I did.

I used the XP disk to install the RDP onto the 2K coputer. I then set
the 2K computer to listen. I was able to establish a connection to
this PC from the Xp computer. When I tried to launch RDP the
connection failed everytime. I tried using the IP address which
failed, and when I tried to browse for the PC nothing would display.

During the successful connection, I could browse the drives on the 2K
PC, but this seemed exactly like mapping drives which I do normally.
If I tried to launch an app on the 2K computer, the same app launched
on the XP.

Maybe I dont completely understand the RDP feature. Could someone
please point me in the right direction and give me a big push.

Thanks
Harley

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

You can connect from a W2K workstation to XP, but not the other
way around. This functionality was not build into W2K. You'll need
pcAnywhere or VNC or Netmeeting for this.

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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
http://hem.fyristorg.com/vera/IT
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