remote desktop

[wrwss]

I am trying to setup a remote desktop connection but am unable to do so. What am I doing wrong? The host will be a windows 2000 machine and the client will be an xp laptop. I cannot get the xp remote desktop to connect to the windows 2k machine with pcanywhere. Any help would be appreciated.

[Peccavi]

What am I doing wrong?

What are you doing?

[wrwss]

i have the host windows 2k machine running pcanywhere and when I use my client machine running xp it cannot connect to the pcanywhere machine. Is this even possible? Do I need pcanywhere on both machines? Or can I have pcanywhere on the host and just use the xp remote desktop connection program on the client machine?

[dl65]

 wrwss...... I'm not 100% certain , but I believe you need pc anywhere installed on both machines .....
If your having trouble ...you might try using MSN messenger ....... open it on both machines ....... make sure that you can see each other online and then click on the ACTION button in msn messenger and then choose REQUEST REMOTE ASSISTANCE ...... It works very well ......


Hope this helps

dl65  

[wrwss]

I need to be able to work a server from a different location, like I was sitting at the server. I figured out that I need a newer version of pcanywhere but I still have a question. Will both pc's need to have pcanywhere on them? Or can the server have it installed and can I just use xp to connect to it?

[Rob Pomeroy]

If nothing else works, try using RealVNC.  Run it as a server on the PC you're connecting to.  Run the client program on the PC you're connecting from.  Get it >here<.