Friend is asking for advice on a laptop for his wife, primarily to remotely
access her work desktop that runs XP. (She uses architectural design
software on it.)
Any input on these questions is appreciated:
1) Remote Desktop apparently doesn't work in Vista Home editions. Will
Vista Business allow you to remotely control an XP machine?
2) Alternative is to just order XP on a new Dell. But I suspect eventually
we will all have to go to Vista, so maybe this isn't a good idea. If she
gets a new work PC it's likely to be Vista. Can XP remote in to Vista?
3) Virtually all the big box store PCs come with Vista Home Premium. It is
feasible to upgrade this to Vista Business?
4) Any alternatives to Remote Desktop? Brief research I've done turns up
VNC, and various falvors, like UltraVNC and TightVNC.
i have been down this road before.
there is no remote control software that can keep up with the likes of
autocad.
that is to say that you can not use autocad on a remote computer with the
likes of windows remote desktop, remote web workplace, logmein, gotomypc,
logmein, or vcn. it is just too slow at refreshing the screen.
on the positive side, autocad licensing allows for two installation of each
of their products - one for the office and one for the home/laptop - the two
are not to be used at the same time and the newer versions of their software
check if the same serial number version is running on the local network (or
so i am told). but don't believe me, try it your self. both logmein and
gotomypc have free trials... and the basic logmein is free forever. both
great products which could not be easier to install... but not fast enough
for autocad.
"Saml" <none@no_such_isp.com> wrote in message
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> Friend is asking for advice on a laptop for his wife, primarily to
> remotely access her work desktop that runs XP. (She uses architectural
> design software on it.)
>
> Any input on these questions is appreciated:
>
> 1) Remote Desktop apparently doesn't work in Vista Home editions. Will
> Vista Business allow you to remotely control an XP machine?
>
> 2) Alternative is to just order XP on a new Dell. But I suspect
> eventually we will all have to go to Vista, so maybe this isn't a good
> idea. If she gets a new work PC it's likely to be Vista. Can XP remote
> in to Vista?
>
> 3) Virtually all the big box store PCs come with Vista Home Premium. It
> is feasible to upgrade this to Vista Business?
>
> 4) Any alternatives to Remote Desktop? Brief research I've done turns up
> VNC, and various falvors, like UltraVNC and TightVNC.
>
> Thanks, Sam
>
You've got it backwards...doesn't matter what you get on the
laptop...but the desktop at work needs to have an OS with remote
desktop. So Windows XP Professional or XP MCE or Windows Vista
Business or Vista Ultimate must be installed on the workplace computer
("host") that you want to access remotely. The "client" computer
(laptop in your example) just needs plain old Windows XP Home or a
version of Vista.
On Nov 24, 12:32 pm, "Saml" <none@no_such_isp.com> wrote:
> Friend is asking for advice on a laptop for his wife, primarily to remotely
> access her work desktop that runs XP. (She uses architectural design
> software on it.)
>
> Any input on these questions is appreciated:
>
> 1) Remote Desktop apparently doesn't work in Vista Home editions. Will
> Vista Business allow you to remotely control an XP machine?
>
> 2) Alternative is to just order XP on a new Dell. But I suspect eventually
> we will all have to go to Vista, so maybe this isn't a good idea. If she
> gets a new work PC it's likely to be Vista. Can XP remote in to Vista?
>
> 3) Virtually all the big box store PCs come with Vista Home Premium. It is
> feasible to upgrade this to Vista Business?
>
> 4) Any alternatives to Remote Desktop? Brief research I've done turns up
> VNC, and various falvors, like UltraVNC and TightVNC.
>
> Thanks, Sam
The limitations you cite are about machines being CONTROLLED, not the
machines that are the remote CONTROLLER.
All versions of XP and Vista include the Remote Desktop Client. I use
my Vista Home Premium machine to control my XP Pro and Vista Business
and Vista Ultimate machines all the time.
As for using architectural programs remotely, I tend to agree with the
previous post. It is possible with Remote Desktop, but unless your
connection is very fast at both ends, it will be ugly.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saml [mailto:none@no_such_isp.com]
> Posted At: Saturday, November 24, 2007 12:33 PM
> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
> Conversation: Remote Desktop Options
> Subject: Remote Desktop Options
>
> Friend is asking for advice on a laptop for his wife, primarily to
> remotely
> access her work desktop that runs XP. (She uses architectural design
> software on it.)
>
> Any input on these questions is appreciated:
>
> 1) Remote Desktop apparently doesn't work in Vista Home editions.
Will
> Vista Business allow you to remotely control an XP machine?
>
> 2) Alternative is to just order XP on a new Dell. But I suspect
> eventually
> we will all have to go to Vista, so maybe this isn't a good idea. If
> she
> gets a new work PC it's likely to be Vista. Can XP remote in to
Vista?
>
> 3) Virtually all the big box store PCs come with Vista Home Premium.
> It is
> feasible to upgrade this to Vista Business?
>
> 4) Any alternatives to Remote Desktop? Brief research I've done turns
> up
> VNC, and various falvors, like UltraVNC and TightVNC.
>
> Thanks, Sam
"Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ACD47356D1224A2E8F93DE1D01E659A3@M2010...
> The limitations you cite are about machines being CONTROLLED, not the
> machines that are the remote CONTROLLER.
>
> All versions of XP and Vista include the Remote Desktop Client. I use
> my Vista Home Premium machine to control my XP Pro and Vista Business
> and Vista Ultimate machines all the time.
>
Thanks y'all for setting me straight on this.
As for the Autocad, she knows of the poor refresh rates and uses it only in
emergencies from home. Much of her other stuff is proposals, budgets,
Excel, etc. I didn't totally understand her usage.
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