Can I user Remote Desktop to connect to a Windows XP Home
computer from a Windows XP Pro computer just by typing in
the IP address?

Please help. I will be staying at a hotel in New York with my laptop and I need to "take over" my PC at my office in California. I have both PC runs Windows XP Pro. My assistant is illiterate about the program that I need to run on my PC at my office in California. Other than ...

Help..I'm going crazy here (smile).
I've set up RA through the GP, but can not receive inviatiations to help
others.  Whenever someone sends a request for help, they receive a message
which states the RA is not setup on my PC.

I've established a remote connection from one XP Pro
machine to another.  I can see my local printer on the
host, but I need to be able to map this printer to an LPT
port on the host ('cause I need to print from a DOS-based

Can I make it so that when I am connected to the office from home to a terminal server it will print to my home printer? Or can I only print to printers on the company network?

I am unable to RDP from my office (XP Pro) computer to my
home (XP Home) computer.  I receive error stating "client
could not connect to the remote computer".  I am using
dsl via a usb connection.

My internet connection at home is via cable modem.  In
trying to setup a modem connection for dial-up to the
office, system attempts to dial but there is no dial tone.
What I've checked:

I am a network administrator for the State of Alabama and
we have recently started deploying Windows XP to our
clients.
Right now we are holding off on upgrading anymore clients

In my Offline folder all the subfolders from the server disapeared, so all files lies directly under the Offline folder (root). Can someone help me what I can do?
Cheers from Sweden

I have one workstation that recently stopped allowing
Remote Desktop Client connections coming in from the
Internet (through a VPN).  If I'm on the LAN, it works
fine.  Other workstations in the organization still work

Hi Everyone, I posted a few days ago when I was on the road and unable to use Remote Desktop Connection. Last I did was to make the workstation use a static ip as Bill suggested
1) IP address
2) subnet mas
3) default gateway (the router's IP address

How do you make a Windows XP Pro computer participate in
*both* a Windows domain and a seperate newsgroup (with
different names)?
Here's the situation:

I recently upgraded from ME to XP.  I've lost my E (Zip) drive completely.
Can anyone tell me how to get it back?
Thanks

I had a manager ask me to add his laptop to our office domain.  Then he wanted to go on a trip and take his laptop with him.  But he wants to have the profile be the same when he is away from the office (same look, outlook express contacts, shortcuts, etc.
Is it possible to have ...

I use Remote Assistance a lot. I am tired of having to
click on Help, then Tools, then Offer Remote Assistance.  
Anyone know how I can make a shortcut on my Desktop to
go directly to the Offer Remote Assistance page?