XP Pro

swinnie · 21 Nov 2007 at 18:18

Hope someone can answer this for me.

I have set-up Remote Desktop on an XP Pro Laptop of my friend's.

I was under the impression that you can use Remote Desktop while someone else is logged on with a different username.

Or is this only achievable with Server 2003?

Thanks in advance

topher · 21 Nov 2007 at 18:44

thats correct mate, use something like ultra vnc which wont log them off when you logon.

Topher

swinnie · 21 Nov 2007 at 18:51

Thanks for clearing that up!

crowhorse · 21 Nov 2007 at 21:05

swinnie said:
Hope someone can answer this for me.

I have set-up Remote Desktop on an XP Pro Laptop of my friend's.

I was under the impression that you can use Remote Desktop while someone else is logged on with a different username.

Or is this only achievable with Server 2003?

Thanks in advance

That's only acheiveable with terminal services... so on an xp machine - no - you can only have 1 person logged in at a time.

terminal services you can have on server operating systems... by default a server OS comes with 2 terminal server licenses (meaning 2 people can be logged on at a time) otherwise you can buy more licenses to have more people logged in simultaneously.

Burnsy2023 · 21 Nov 2007 at 21:13

crowhorse said:
terminal services you can have on server operating systems... by default a server OS comes with 2 terminal server licenses (meaning 2 people can be logged on at a time) otherwise you can buy more licenses to have more people logged in simultaneously.

They're designed for sys admins though, not normal users.

Burnsy

Sp00n · 21 Nov 2007 at 21:48

There are some documents out there entailing how to enable this in windows, don't know about their legality though.

swinnie · 21 Nov 2007 at 21:52

I do seem to remember you being able to download Terminal Services for Windows 2000 Professional with SP4 from MS. But I could be imagining things again.

crowhorse · 21 Nov 2007 at 23:24

Burnsy2023 said:
They're designed for sys admins though, not normal users.

Burnsy

Well... terminal services is actually designed for the end user... ie multiple clients all working on the same server in order to maintain the integrity of a database... or something similar.

Only the admin side is designed for the sys admins

InvaderGIR · 22 Nov 2007 at 00:04

crowhorse said:
Well... terminal services is actually designed for the end user... ie multiple clients all working on the same server in order to maintain the integrity of a database... or something similar.

Only the admin side is designed for the sys admins

I think what he means is that the ones that come with the server editions without paying extra are for admin purposes.

As for XP, never run RDC into it, only from it to an S2K3 box.

InvG

crowhorse · 23 Nov 2007 at 19:25

InvaderGIR said:
I think what he means is that the ones that come with the server editions without paying extra are for admin purposes.

As for XP, never run RDC into it, only from it to an S2K3 box.

InvG

Ah - fair enough.

I use RDP to my xp machine when away from home and tight VNC for remoting to various machines within the house.