Hello, Being away from home for a week at a time I often wish I could do something on my computer at home. How well does remote desktop work? One of the things I wanted to do this week was go on and delete the history of internet explorer. Would I be able to do something like that? Can I transfer a file from the home computer to my computer at work? And last if someone is using my computer at home, will they know if I am using it through remote desktop? Thanks Chris
Very well actually, but it isn't very secure (nothing to be pedantic over) You can do most things you could do if you were at the system Yes, you can set it up (client) so your local drives show up on the remote system, it won't be very fast tough... They'll get a notice, and are logged off.
how well does it work ? its great for anything office and general windows based. explorer history is not a problem with windows remote desktop you can just right click on the file and click copy then paste it onto the current machine your limited to upload speeds tho in terms of other people knowing im not sure on this but it depnds on how you set it ip i know VNC can just take control of the mouse but with remote desktop you can create a new session or log off the existing i beleive i only ever take control of my machine at home which no one else uses and is monitorless or a machine at work which allows multiple sessions
Things be careful at... Make sure your computer that you connect to has a strong password. Also, don't confuse between systems. What I mean is, once I remote desktop to my computer and wanted to print some work. So I printed something without the print dialog box (quick print). In result, I just printed my work on MY printer at home. So, yea.. watch out for that, and do a normal print procedure with the dialog box to select the printer from where you actually are so that remote desktop does the transfer and prints it on your local machine instead.
On consumer OS's (XP, Vista etc) you only ever have one session, so only one person can be logged in at a time. If you log in via remote desktop (MSTSC) then you will log off anyone logged in locally. And the same works the other way round, they can log back in again and log off the remote user. In windows server OSs, then you have more sessions. The minimum is usually four. Two standard "client" licences plus console & admin. For a bit of remote admin remote desktop will do fine, if you are connecting over a slow connection then limit the window to 640x480 and 256 colours. No need for full screen 32bit if you're just making some config changes. Hope this helps.
