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Summary: Unfortunately you cannot connect to someone via Remote Desktop with XP Home if you have XP Pro. But there are other products that you can use instead.
How can I connect using remote desktop to someone that has XP Home if I have XP Pro?
The short answer is you can't. The remote system needs to be running the Remote Desktop Service (also known as Terminal Services), and XP Home doesn't have that. You'll need to use something like pcAnywhere, GoToMyPC or similar products.
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In response to Jamie and connecting from a library computer: The following link describes how to configure Remote Desktop Web Connection on XP Pro/Media Center:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/northrup_03may16.mspx
Posted by: Lance at September 13, 2007 6:57 AMAll you have to do is: go to c:\windows\system32 and double clieck mstsc.exe. Search for it and you will find it. Nothing else!
Posted by: Remoter at September 22, 2007 9:23 AMThere is a program unlike no program b4. It will create a network between 16 computers (VPN), where loctaion is not a question. So you dont have to configure your firewalls, or routers. And you can play games over the network. No more battlenet. or other servers. I suggest all of you look into it www.hamachi.cc they where there own company. LogMeIn took them over about 2 months ago
Hamachi running on an XP Home machine will not solve the problem. XP Home doesn't have the necesary terminal services server software in order to remote desktop to the machine even if it hooked up to a VPN. There are other freeware programs, though, that will allow you to remote desktop to an XP Home machine via a VPN.
Posted by: kuldeep dashora at October 15, 2007 12:35 PMHi,
I was able to remote connect to my office machine sucessfully by configuring the router etc. I have no problems in this. Sometimes, I may require to connect another machine in my same office from my home, which I was unable to do. My Question is, how to connect one of the 2 machines which were under a same router.
Please help
Posted by: Babu at October 29, 2007 11:44 AM@Babu, you can forward different ports on your router to the RDP port on seperate clients.
A example is simple. Let's say the machine you can currently connect to is pc1, and want to connect to pc2 at work. So you go into your router config options, and forward 3390 to pc2's local ip. Then you can forward 3391 to pc3, and so on.
P.S. 3389 is the assumed port for RDP protocol, and to connect to a different port you will need to enter in the port manually in the "compter" prompt for the mtsc client, example: my.ip.is.this:3390
Posted by: Pegleggedous at January 31, 2008 12:16 PMYou can get Remote Desktop in XP Home but it's difficult and not for the less tech savvy. The following page tell you how to make XP Home think it's XP Pro and then you can use Remote Desktop.
Posted by: iPC at March 3, 2008 5:01 PMSorry, I forgot the link!
Posted by: IPC at March 3, 2008 5:02 PMhttp://www.geekport.com/2007/08/15/enabling-remote-desktop-in-xp-home/
How can I connect remote to someone that has XP Home if I have a MAc running Leopard?
Posted by: Dan at April 7, 2008 5:10 PMBrief Description
Remote Desktop Connection Client 1.0.3 for Mac allows you to connect to a Windows-based computer and work with programs and files on that computer from your Macintosh computer.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6573f9f1-8ae1-4da9-ab5c-f8457ecdaf2d
Posted by: TheDude at April 10, 2008 3:43 PMTeamViewer - very good.
Posted by: Y at September 14, 2008 5:05 AM