I have a hosted windows 2003 server that I want to connect to remotely for
admin purposes.
AFAICT remote desktop connection is more secure than VNC and is much faster.
Is there any reason I would use VNC?

Hi All,
I am hoping someone can help with the following questions.  I would like to know if Remote Desktop is the best solution for accessing a desktop in the same location.
I am running a wireless network with PC's in different locations within the 1 physical site.  One has the ...

I am trying to connect 2 my brothers computer with Remote Desktop.
Both mine and his computer are XP Home. I have viewed a few
web pages about this kind of connection but they talk about XP Pro
and servers and I just get lost.

I've been reading the posts and I am reluctant to routinely establish RDC
without VPN first.  I can set up both from home to the office (not
concurrently) , but not RDC through VPN, yet.  I use the same server NIC to
connect to either, and I am assuming i cannot use the same server ...

I have installed the Remote Desktop Connection Client on a 2000 Workstation, which allows me to use this machine to connect to XP machines running the remote deskop sharing client.  My questions is, is there any way to enable remote desktop sharing on a Windows 2000 Pro machine ...

My problem with Remote Desktop Connection is that I can only use it
once. I'm connecting from my work PC to my home PC and the first time
I try (following a recent home PC reboot) everything works fine.
However, when I log out, I get a message saying that there's been an

I wonder if anyone can walk me through a Remote Connection that I am
trying to set up.
Basically I am trying to administer my 77-y-o father and 13-y-o 1/2
brother's PC which is 120 miles away.

By mistake, while trying to reconfigure some bootup and shut down problems I
changed the settings in the registry that now when I turn on my comp and log
in on my administrator user password the computer shuts down and reboots
again to the point where the user password is required ...

I am thinking of reinstall xp.  The version I have is
update.  How do I convince it to install to a newly
formatted disk?  Won't it think that it is a new install
and not an upgrade?

microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely:
I would like to use Remote Desktop to administer Windows XP Professional
machines remotely.  The problem is that when I'm done, the dialog "This
computer is in use and has been locked" remains displayed on the remote

I have remote desktop functionality between my home
computer(Windosw XP home edition) and my office with
(Windows Pro) but not the other way. Is there something
inheritently stopping this from happening between the two

As Remote Desktop doesn't run full-screen DOS I have a
problem running a Dos program that auto switches itself
to full screen. This is done by the program and the DOS
command window settings have no influence.

Is it possible with Windows XP remote desktop or remote assistance to
connect to a users session without locking them out or without them having
to request it.
I know you can do this via terminal services on a server but I don't know if

how do ichane my drive on hard disk from ntfs to fat32

I am trying to connect to my work PC running XP professional from home
which runs the same OS. Remote Desktop is enabled and it works fine
when i try to connect from other PCs at work, which are ofcourse on
the same subnet.