XP home remote desktop

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Not with Remote Desktop. An alternative, one that I use to access/control my wife's XP Home machine,
is UltraVNC. Get the server, client and encryption plug-in from...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
http://home.comcast.net/%7Emsrc4plugin/

I recommend installing and using the encryption plug-in if your intent is to use UltraVNC over the
public internet...

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"ritchie" <ritchie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a desktop running XP-Pro. Can I connect remote desktop with my XP-Home
> notebook? If so, can somepone point me to a URL with instructions. thanks

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely (More info?)

Yes you can.
I have an XP pro desktop, and a win98 laptop.

Setup the desktop:
Go to control panel - system
You'll see a "remote" tab - click on that one
Tick the checkbox "Allow users to connect remotely to
this computer"
*** note, in this screen, you'll see the system name of
this PC. Remember that name ! ***

You'll be prompted to assign a user account.

If the useraccount doesn't have a login password, you'll
be prompted to set this password.

Then, on the xp-home pc, go to start-all programs -
accessories - communications
Select remote desktop connection.
Enter the systemname of the XP-Pro machine (remember?)
and hit enter.

This should get you in.

Bye,
Leo


>-----Original Message-----
>I have a desktop running XP-Pro. Can I connect remote
desktop with my XP-Home
>notebook? If so, can somepone point me to a URL with
instructions. thanks
>.
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely (More info?)

Leo - certainly his XP Home machine can use Remote Desktop to connect to his
XP Pro machine.

However, he wants to do the reverse, as I understand it. Since an XP Home
machine cannot be the host of a Remote Desktop connection, this isn't
possible.

"Leo" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:035801c48fa2$649951e0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Yes you can.
> I have an XP pro desktop, and a win98 laptop.
>
> Setup the desktop:
> Go to control panel - system
> You'll see a "remote" tab - click on that one
> Tick the checkbox "Allow users to connect remotely to
> this computer"
> *** note, in this screen, you'll see the system name of
> this PC. Remember that name ! ***
>
> You'll be prompted to assign a user account.
>
> If the useraccount doesn't have a login password, you'll
> be prompted to set this password.
>
> Then, on the xp-home pc, go to start-all programs -
> accessories - communications
> Select remote desktop connection.
> Enter the systemname of the XP-Pro machine (remember?)
> and hit enter.
>
> This should get you in.
>
> Bye,
> Leo
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have a desktop running XP-Pro. Can I connect remote
> desktop with my XP-Home
>>notebook? If so, can somepone point me to a URL with
> instructions. thanks
>>.
>>