I can usually log in to the computer in my office for a few hours, but, often
the office computer will drop the VPN connection. Is there some way to
prevent the drop or have the VPN reconnect. I'm not a programmer but I might
be able to write a .bat file if that is possible to ...

Running on XP Home. Taking control computer has some keys corrupted.
Controlled computer OK. For example k=2. System restore is only solution.
Any ideas?
Chris Aspinall

This is my first time here. I have 2 laptops (Windows Home XP) in the same
room (not networked) I want to learn how to use Remote Assistance. When I
click on the request for remote assistance (from either laptop) I get the
message "Your current system settings prevent you from, ...

I have a user with a notebook. He has a printer at home that he uses with
the notebook. When he connects to our network at work he experiences extreme
loading times for Word and Excel documents. We're talking minutes here. As
soon as the home printer is removed files open up ...

I am trying to remote (VNC) into my home computer from work.
I used a web site to test for open ports and confirmed that my I
configured my router to correctly allow inbound connections to my VNC
port (restricted to my work IP range).

Does anyone know why when i synchronize it will not synchronize *.mdb files?
It says that files of this type can not be made available offline.  It would
seem that Microsoft Access files could be available offline.  Thanks for any
help you can offer.

sI have two PC's (XP) and trying to setup/run/test remote desktop.  I don't
need to install (I tried) remote desktop software as I'm told already
available.
I try and connect one machine to another (and vice versa) through

When connecting remotely using RD via a VPN to my office machine, I can print
locally from a printer connected with a parallel cable but if I want to use
another printer connected with a usb cable, it is not visible to me. Any
thoughts?

Now there's a title.
I've signed up for a series of MS classes on MS Learning, and am having a
great deal of trouble with the labs portion of the classes.  When I connet to
the VM, I have about 2-5 minutes of life before the screen turns white, and a

Thanks for all the threads on this topic, but after reading them all, I still
haven't seen how to open port 3389 to listen when it is not according to the
results I get when running "cmd".  My W-XP DELL was working well for remote
assistance over internet until I installed ...

How can I disable Remote Assistance and/or remove it from my system?
Thank you.

We are using notebooks with windows xp sp2 and a server with windows sbs
2003 sp1.
Our users are allowed to make the mounted networkdrives (logon script: net
use i: \\172.25.101.2\business /persistent:yes) offline available, which is