XP Pro or XP Home: Is there a difference?

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

XP Home can *NOT* act as a Remote Desktop host. If you want to access/control a XP Home machine look
at using VNC (any flavor). Personally I use and recommend UltraVNC. Get the server, client and
encryption plug-in from...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

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"jjisles" <jjisles@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FDE78B13-897A-44D6-B0BF-F2121C1A954A@microsoft.com...
> I'd like to set up a remote connection to my computer which has XP Home
> Edition. What I have read about working remotely talks about XP Pro. Am I
> able to do this on a computer with XP Home. This computer will be the one
> doing the accessing. In other words, I will be using this PC to connect to
> another one.
> Thank you.