Hi, i used to use my main computer (in sig, Vista HP x64) to remote control my laptop (windows xp pro) so i could turn on and off downloads and play music through it. Now i have installed vista 64 on the laptop and i cant seem to connect to the laptop? Is there anything i could be missing out? Settings, software, drivers etc? Any help be appreciated as dont really want to re install xp again, and quite like the function of remote desktop.
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If you've installed anything less than Business or Ultimate on the laptop you're out of luck, it's not included in Home or Home Premium. There's a hack, but it only works on the 32 bit version IIRC.
Just install something like TightVNC instead.
Just install something like TightVNC instead.
Never used anything other than Business or Ultimate.RDC (aka RDP/Terminal Services) has 2 parts.
Client: The application used to remotely take control of another machine.
Server: The application that allows a machine to be remotely controlled by another machine
All version of XP and Vista (excluding Home Basic I think) have the RDC Client, so can be used to take control of any RDC enabled machine.
Only Xp Pro, Vista Business and Vista Ultimate have the RDC Server, so only these machines can be controlled remotely by another machine.
As said before, Home Premium can be hacked to have the client installed, but afaik its 32bit only.
Hope this helps.
Client: The application used to remotely take control of another machine.
Server: The application that allows a machine to be remotely controlled by another machine
All version of XP and Vista (excluding Home Basic I think) have the RDC Client, so can be used to take control of any RDC enabled machine.
Only Xp Pro, Vista Business and Vista Ultimate have the RDC Server, so only these machines can be controlled remotely by another machine.
As said before, Home Premium can be hacked to have the client installed, but afaik its 32bit only.
Hope this helps.
Microsoft should really make this available to Home Premium users. If even for a small fee like £10 or something.
VNC (or any screen scaper remote desktop softwarE) on Vista is just terrible. Slow and crap. Microsoft's RDP is the only proper solution because it is not a screen scraper.
VNC (or any screen scaper remote desktop softwarE) on Vista is just terrible. Slow and crap. Microsoft's RDP is the only proper solution because it is not a screen scraper.
yup
i wish you'd have to buy a key from ms (and have a website login for it)
then from there you could buy features..
media player
ie
media centre
remote desktop
paint
etc
charging small ammounts for each component, with it called "windows 'core edition'" or something
that would rock
logmein free is a web based remote control software...
create a free login, download some software to the laptop, then you can connect to it from anywhere with an internet connection, will disable things like wallpaper and stuff to speed things up also.
God send piece of software!
create a free login, download some software to the laptop, then you can connect to it from anywhere with an internet connection, will disable things like wallpaper and stuff to speed things up also.
God send piece of software!
I had the hack working on HP x64 SP1. Got Business now so I haven't used it for a while.
This isn't true at all..
This is only true of the poor versions of VNC you've clearly used. Most (All IIRC). Are based off of our VNC Free Edition codebase, which is legacy software now.
VNC Enterprise/Personal Edition are based on a new, closed-source RFB protocol (RFB 4) and amongst other things have various capture-methods, such as the VNC Mirror Driver.
AFAIK UltraVNC tore apart and copied our Mirror Driver so their software doesn't actually do a half-bad job.
Free edition only, as you say. Enterprise/Personal Edition are fully Vista compatible (Windows 7 soon, too).
Only ever used TightVNC. It's very slow. But sometimes there is no alternative.
No.
Disable firewall (or create an exception) and make sure remote connections are enabled.