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Originally Posted by DaveAz
One of the pc's I'd like connection to is XP Home...So I have installed tight vnc on it to connect to it with my laptop.
I'm somewhat new to this and I'm sure I'm missing something. Will it work w/XP Home?
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Remote desktop doesn't work with XP Home for incoming connections. It is on the OS for outgoing connections and works just fine for that. For incoming you need either a terminal server or a computer running Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2), or Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) that has Remote Desktop enabled and for which you have Remote Desktop permissions.
Setup is reasonably straightforward on the computer but can be a little more complicated getting through firewalls and opening the correct ports on your modem.
RDP Client (the computer you're connecting from) is already on all XP versions and can be downloaded from Microsoft for pre XP OS's.
Here's a link to a tutorial on how to configure remote desktop:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...7-6119547.html
If you just need access to your XP Home Edition computer, may want to try Logmein free:
https://secure.logmein.com/home.asp
Also, this is a link from another forum member about another access site but I have no information on it:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...35&postcount=1