Remote Desktop/PC Anywhere scenario

Hope someone can help with this.

My Dimension 9200 running XP Pro was bubbling along quite nicely with a
video capture card that was driving my CCTV system here.

Upgrading to Vista resulted in incompatibility with the OS and my capture
card drivers. Good old Vista.

The card manufacturer hasn't issued Vista drivers but I've got a redundant
Dimension 8400 that I can load XP and the card surveillance software on and
put the card in there.

I don't have a monitor for the 8400 so I was wondering about sitting the
unit in the corner and using Remote Desktop or something on my 9200 to be
able to view anything I need to. I used PC Anywhere about 10 years ago but
things have moved on and I'm rusty with this area of technology..........

Does there need to be a physical wired connection between the 8400 and my
9200? What if I buy a cheapy wireless USB dongle and join the 8400 to my
wireless network?

I guess what I'm basically asking is: is what I'm trying to do (a) possible
and (b) relatively straightforward?

TIA.

"Leaenna Mills" <leaenna_mills@budweiser.com> wrote in message
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> Hope someone can help with this.
>
> My Dimension 9200 running XP Pro was bubbling along quite nicely with a
> video capture card that was driving my CCTV system here.
>
> Upgrading to Vista resulted in incompatibility with the OS and my capture
> card drivers. Good old Vista.
>
> The card manufacturer hasn't issued Vista drivers but I've got a redundant
> Dimension 8400 that I can load XP and the card surveillance software on
> and put the card in there.
>
> I don't have a monitor for the 8400 so I was wondering about sitting the
> unit in the corner and using Remote Desktop or something on my 9200 to be
> able to view anything I need to. I used PC Anywhere about 10 years ago
> but things have moved on and I'm rusty with this area of
> technology..........
>
> Does there need to be a physical wired connection between the 8400 and my
> 9200? What if I buy a cheapy wireless USB dongle and join the 8400 to my
> wireless network?
>
> I guess what I'm basically asking is: is what I'm trying to do (a)
> possible and (b) relatively straightforward?
>
> TIA.
>

In general terms, yes. Just network the 8400 via wireless or cabled to your
router, and then load the remote software on it.

I use: http://www.download.com/LogMeIn-Free...-10434405.html

Others here may prefer Windows native remote access. GoToMyPC is alright,
but I was under the impression it was pretty pricey when I looked at it 2
years ago.......

Anyway, once the target computer is on the network and the remote software
is installed, you can log in via the LogMeIn web interface and control the
8400.

In theory. g

Won't work. The video isn't transmitted to the RDP client.

Sorry

-----Original Message-----
From: Leaenna Mills [mailto:leaenna_mills@budweiser.com]
Posted At: Friday, May 04, 2007 1:33 PM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Remote Desktop/PC Anywhere scenario
Subject: Remote Desktop/PC Anywhere scenario

Hope someone can help with this.

My Dimension 9200 running XP Pro was bubbling along quite nicely with a
video capture card that was driving my CCTV system here.

Upgrading to Vista resulted in incompatibility with the OS and my
capture
card drivers. Good old Vista.

The card manufacturer hasn't issued Vista drivers but I've got a
redundant
Dimension 8400 that I can load XP and the card surveillance software on
and
put the card in there.

I don't have a monitor for the 8400 so I was wondering about sitting the

unit in the corner and using Remote Desktop or something on my 9200 to
be
able to view anything I need to. I used PC Anywhere about 10 years ago
but
things have moved on and I'm rusty with this area of
technology..........

Does there need to be a physical wired connection between the 8400 and
my
9200? What if I buy a cheapy wireless USB dongle and join the 8400 to
my
wireless network?

I guess what I'm basically asking is: is what I'm trying to do (a)
possible
and (b) relatively straightforward?

TIA.

"Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Won't work. The video isn't transmitted to the RDP client.
>
> Sorry
>


Good point. Have never tried it. Glad monitors are cheap.

"S.Lewis" <stew1960@mail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3CA9ADC3B821483BB5EA8ED166E0CD94@T9200...
>> Won't work. The video isn't transmitted to the RDP client.
>>
>> Sorry
>>
>
>
> Good point. Have never tried it. Glad monitors are cheap.


Scratch that. It does work without monitor.

Target system: Dimension 8300 running Windows Vista Ultimate (this version
of LogMeIn isn't recommended for Vista, but using it anyway. They have a
beta out....)

Control system is running WinXP Pro SP2.

So yeah. She can set up her 8400 with the software and then pull the
monitor. I pulled the monitor while on the desktop, then forced a warm
reboot and it all checks good.

-Stew

-----Original Message-----
From: S.Lewis [mailto:stew1960@mail.com]
Posted At: Friday, May 04, 2007 7:50 PM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Remote Desktop/PC Anywhere scenario
Subject: Re: Remote Desktop/PC Anywhere scenario


"S.Lewis" <stew1960@mail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3CA9ADC3B821483BB5EA8ED166E0CD94@T9200...
>> Won't work. The video isn't transmitted to the RDP client.
>>
>> Sorry
>>
>
>
> Good point. Have never tried it. Glad monitors are cheap.


Scratch that. It does work without monitor.

Target system: Dimension 8300 running Windows Vista Ultimate (this
version
of LogMeIn isn't recommended for Vista, but using it anyway. They have a

beta out....)

Control system is running WinXP Pro SP2.

So yeah. She can set up her 8400 with the software and then pull the
monitor. I pulled the monitor while on the desktop, then forced a warm
reboot and it all checks good.

-Stew

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You connected to the remote system, played a video on the remote system
and it played on the client properly? That would be impressive. RDP
and RealVNC won't do it.

Tom

Tom Scales wrote:
>
> You connected to the remote system, played a video on the remote system
> and it played on the client properly? That would be impressive. RDP
> and RealVNC won't do it.

I do both those all the time. We have a headless PC at work that drives
several display screens in public areas of the building - eg reception -
that shows videos, Powerpoints etc.

It's essentially headless and we control it over VNC. Yes, the frame
rate is poor but I can definitely see full screen video. That's using
UltraVNC - although I'm pretty sure we've had it working using TightVNC
in the past. No special configuration required.

We also have some RDP based thin clients and they show videos fine.

Alex