Apart from enableing desk top remote access and what else has to be done?  
Information I have found suggests it is all straight forward.  Maybe I thick
!!!!

I have winXP Home edition in my PC. I have accidently deleted remote desktop
from "Start->All Programs->Accessories->communications". Can anyone help me
how to get it back. I tried reinstalling a new one, but it says that there is
already one version installed. If so, i dont know ...

I have a home computer running Windows XP Prof and a Work Laptop, also
running Windows XP Prof.
A couple of months ago, when working at home, I used to use Windows Remote
Desktop Connection from my Home PC to work on my Work Laptop (via local

I am writing from USA. I have sent an Access application to a client in Rome
with instructions as to how to transfer the files and where to put them. In
the event that they do not feel comfortable doing the task, can they (from an
Administrator account - Windows XP) invite me to ...

This has been reported many times but neither here not in MS KB could I
find anything relevant for this error happening between two XP SP2
Professional machines, both recently updated with everything that MS
considers worthy of updating..

I'm trying to access an application with tall dialogs from a laptop with an
800 pixel display, and the bottom of the dialog extends below the bottom of
the laptop display. When viewed on the RDP server's display running at
1280x1024, the dialog fits fine. Is there some way I can ...

I hope I'm posting this in the right newsgroup. If I should post it
elsewhere, please let me know which group I should be in.
Anyway........I am connecting from an XP Pro machine to a Windows 2000
Server box.

When I know the IP address of a remote PC, how can I query its NetBIOS
computer name by this IP remotely?
Thanks,
Hank

Okay I have wasted about 30 hours on this now.
I have a windows 2003 server in my office which is running a Remote
Access Service.
I can connect to it with one PC but not the other. Buth PCs are XPPro

Hi Which XPs can you remote assistance to and from. Does everything have to
be XP Pro? Does the host have to be pro. What about remoting to an XP home
from XP Media Center Edition 2005?
Thanks

I've got a bit of a puzzle here ! We have 3 PC's in our remote office
that can VPN into our Main Office (SBS 2003 Server)
Two of the PC's work fine, you can connect by \\Servername\ etc so no
problems there....

When I start the Offer Remote Assistance I can enter the other computer name
and it displays the user that is logged on.  Then when I start the Remote
Assistance the starting remote assistanc box starts, but right after that I
get "Cannot connect the the other computer, Please ...

Am I the only one that thinks it is nuts that you can't (or I don't know how)
turn on remote desktop via a domain GPO??
My solution right now is fine, but it is just annoying that I can't use GP.
Even worse people are using reg edits, YUK!

Since we installed a new server at work and changed the domain name, I have
been unable to connect my Windows XP Pro computer at home to my Windows XP
computer at work.  I have been doing this a long time but with the new server
I can't connect.  Is it possible that this needs ...

I use RD quite a bit in the office to work on lab machines.  If the
session is left idle for some period of time, the connection goes away.
I can reconnect and see that the remote system never rebooted or
appeared to have a problem.  Is there a timeout for this?  I have