Remote Desktop Win XP Pro to Win XP Home

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You can't use Remote Desktop to access/control a XP Home machine. The XP Home machine can only act
as a RDP client and *NOT* as a RDP host.

Look at using VNC to access/control the XP Home machine from your other PCs... Personally I
currently use TightVNC to remotely access/control my wife's XP Home machine from my XP Pro machine
or iPAQ 5555 PocketPC...

http://www.tightvnc.com/

If you want to access/control the XP Home machine over the public internet I suggest UltraVNC with
it encryption plug-in or use either TightVNC or UltraVNC through a VPN tunnel.

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:92647F7F-F6E3-4162-AE15-CD4A475B6E87@microsoft.com...
>I have networked three computers toghter. Two with windows xp pro and one
> with xp home edition. The two computers that incorporates win xp pro
> communicats "like peas and carrots," but when I use try to connect to the
> home edition computer I get the "client could not connect to the remote
> computer, remote connection might not be enabled or the computer might be too
> busy to accept new connections. It is also possible that network problems
> are preventing your connections. Please try again later. If the problem
> continues to occur, contact your administator.
>
> I made sure that "remote" under the control panel systems property is
> checked to accept remote computers. I tried to use the IP address of the
> host, everything no luck. The only thing I can figure out by reading the
> help file is that I need to increase me remote user, "how do you do that in
> win xp home" everything is easy in win xp pro. By the way the computer with
> win xp home can file and print fine. I just have trouble with the desk top.
> On the xp pro machines I'm not using "simple fire sharing" on home, I have no
> choice than use the default.
>
> Thanks
>
> George
> --
> Thanks
>
> George

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

Thanks for the reply. Well I guess that answers my question. Now I know the
main difference between Home and Pro edition. Thanks for the link I'll give
it a try.

George

"Sooner Al" wrote:

> You can't use Remote Desktop to access/control a XP Home machine. The XP Home machine can only act
> as a RDP client and *NOT* as a RDP host.
>
> Look at using VNC to access/control the XP Home machine from your other PCs... Personally I
> currently use TightVNC to remotely access/control my wife's XP Home machine from my XP Pro machine
> or iPAQ 5555 PocketPC...
>
> http://www.tightvnc.com/
>
> If you want to access/control the XP Home machine over the public internet I suggest UltraVNC with
> it encryption plug-in or use either TightVNC or UltraVNC through a VPN tunnel.
>
> http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
>
> --
> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>
> Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the mutual benefit of all of us...
> The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights...
>
> "George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:92647F7F-F6E3-4162-AE15-CD4A475B6E87@microsoft.com...
> >I have networked three computers toghter. Two with windows xp pro and one
> > with xp home edition. The two computers that incorporates win xp pro
> > communicats "like peas and carrots," but when I use try to connect to the
> > home edition computer I get the "client could not connect to the remote
> > computer, remote connection might not be enabled or the computer might be too
> > busy to accept new connections. It is also possible that network problems
> > are preventing your connections. Please try again later. If the problem
> > continues to occur, contact your administator.
> >
> > I made sure that "remote" under the control panel systems property is
> > checked to accept remote computers. I tried to use the IP address of the
> > host, everything no luck. The only thing I can figure out by reading the
> > help file is that I need to increase me remote user, "how do you do that in
> > win xp home" everything is easy in win xp pro. By the way the computer with
> > win xp home can file and print fine. I just have trouble with the desk top.
> > On the xp pro machines I'm not using "simple fire sharing" on home, I have no
> > choice than use the default.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > George
> > --
> > Thanks
> >
> > George
>
>