VNC

gooner_47 · 10 Oct 2006 at 20:18

I'm at work. I connect to my home PC using VNC, I log into my user account, I'm viewing my desktop. My screen at home will also now be displaying my desktop. Is there any way to keep the screen at home displaying the user login screen?

Hope this makes sense to someone

gooner_47 · 10 Oct 2006 at 21:28

anything that will do what i want?

gooner_47 · 10 Oct 2006 at 22:05

edwardcasbon1 said:
Excuse my ignorance, but can someone explain how you can run VNC while the computer is not logged in?

well in my case, i'm logged in and i've just hit windows key+l for the fast user switching, so basically i'm already logged in

gooner_47 · 10 Oct 2006 at 22:07

sniper007 said:
Remote desktop

FunkyCowie said above remote desktop won't work?

gooner_47 · 10 Oct 2006 at 22:26

oddjob62 said:
Am i right in thinking... you want to control your PC at home without people in front of it being able to see what you are doing? If that is correct then use Remote Desktop. If you want someone else to be able to log in at the same time and control the system, then you need something like a terminal server.

Correct. I'll look into remote deskop then.

What happens if for example, you have two accounts 'a' and 'b'. 'a' is logged in, but then 'b' also logs in using fast user switching.

If i then tried to use remote desktop to log in remotely to 'a' while 'b' is logged in and in use, what would happen?

gooner_47 · 10 Oct 2006 at 22:38

thanks a lot i'll sort out remote desktop

gooner_47 · 10 Oct 2006 at 22:45

it's just if i ever need to access files, or open/close programs, general tasks like that. and there's people at home during the day so it would be better if they didn't see what was going on for privacy reasons

gooner_47 · 10 Oct 2006 at 22:49

i've got i working fine now thanks guys, just testing it by accessing my desktop from my laptop. thanks for all the help.

off topic now, is remote desktop secure? with vnc i was connecting via vpn first, as i read that it's safer. do you still need to do that with remote desktop?

gooner_47 · 10 Oct 2006 at 22:50

Kerplunk said:
What if somones using the PC at home?

that's what i just asked about, and what oddjob62 posted the support link for. if someone's logged on, you'll be informed and can either cancel the remote login, or inform the user at home that you're trying to log on