I have a friend who has a small business. She & 2 others share a desktop PC
(windows XP). I assume its files are 'shared' but am not certain.
Until recently she was able to use her own laptop to access, edit, save,  &
print files stored on the desktop. No cables are involved so I ...

I have two clients (I do their accounting)  to which I connect.  For each, I
log into their static IP address with my user id and password.
I haven't had any trouble with them until today.  I cannot log into either,
so it may a problem with my computer.  However, both of my ...

I installed the newest Remote Desktop Client from Microsoft into my
XP-Pro SP2 PC in order to be able to use remote desktop to Vista
machines and also to make it possible to use larger screen sizes.
But now whenever I start the Remote Desktop it pops up an error box

I have used Remote Desktop Connection for a number of years.
Recently (maybe around the same time as some recent patches), Remote Desktop
Connection stopped working.
I tried turning off all firewalls on both computers, but this did not solve

I have two computers on a WLAN, both running XP Pro. I can connect from one
machine to the other using Remote Desktop.
I find the screen actions can only appear at one end at one time. The pc
host cannot share the same screen with the remote user. In other words if I

   I've got an xp box and i need to connect to a friend's xp box so i can
assist him with his computer. Both of us are behind firewalls, mine does
natting, i'm assuming his does as well. Does anyone have a method where we
can connect? And ports on each firewall that will need to ...

Is there any way that I can stop Remote Desktop from locking the host
machine, or perhaps get it to automatically unlock the host after the remote
access?
I'm trying to run automated regression tests (using HP's "QuickTest

I have an application, which I run on a remote PC, to view it I use
Remote desktop. The application scrapes the screen at intervals.
The problem is that the screen scraping only works when the remote
desktop connection is active (not closed or minimized). I want the

I have 3 computers (all WinXP) connected to my NetGear router.
RemoteDesktop connections that work:
A->B
C->A

I have two computers on my LAN, one running XP Pro and the other Vista
Business.  I can connect from the Vista machine to the XP machine using
Remote Desktop.  I can also connect to the XP machine with Remote Assistance
if I use an emailed invitation (sent from the XP machine).  ...

I support a development environment wherre the users access multiple pc's
through VPN, Remote Desktop, PC Anywhere, etc. I believe that user's accounts
are being locked up because they fail to log off every pc they have logged
into, and their passwords become unsynchronized. Has ...

Almost consistently, whenever I connect to a remote machine using RDT,
the connection will break after a minute or so.  If I try to connect
to a different computer at the same IP address after the first
connection was broken, I get a message back saying "This computer

Just looking for some pointers to see if I can resolve a small problem
we are having...
We have recently upgraded our out-of-date BT ADSL router to a Netgear
DG834 wireless ADSL router and are now having some interesting issues

We have a small network behind a wireless router with many hard wired
PC and no AD. We often connect to the one PC with a laptop using the
wireless.
This problem occurred out of the blue after working great for years.

I have setup Remote Assistance on my computer but find when I send an
invitation that they usually don't get delivered or take a long time
to be delivered.  I expect if it was a firewall problem it would give
me an error and never send it but since some of them are getting