Remote desktop connection

[xtreemnet]

Hi

My company has a peer to peer network. My desktop has windows 98SE operating system. I would like to access this office computer from my home computer which has XP Professional system. Do I just need to install Remote Desktop software on windows 98?

How do I go about this?

Thanks,

 

[manarth]

"I would like to access this office computer from my home computer which has XP Professional system"

WHAT would you like to access? Files? The desktop?

You could setup an FTP server on your office PC to access files.

You could install a VNC server on the office PC and a VNC viewer on your home PC - this would allow you to remotely take control, but the speed can be annoyingly slow.

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[xtreemnet]

I would like to access the desktop using the remote desktop software. Is it possible?

 

[manarth]

I've not tried it...VNC offers a similar functionality.
A free VNC server and viewer can be downloaded from

http://www.realvnc.com

(under the GNU licence).

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[bcastner]

The Remote Desktop client is supported from Windows 95 on up. It is a free download:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/b/d/8bd667e9-dcce-475b-8c49-dc6331e63c47/msrdpcli.exe

 

[xtreemnet]

I have the remote desktop download. But I read on the net that you can access XP machines from other windows system but not the otherway round. Is this true?