Remote Desktop : Connecting to a WinXP machine ?

[Patrick Siglin]

He can see you control his pc if he loads vnc on it. 

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:02:37 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote
> On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 20:45 -0600, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 03:14:33AM +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > > It works well except for one strange show stopper... 
> > 
> > The behavior you're describing is intentional.  Microsoft doesn't want 
> > multiple users on a single PC at a time.
> 
> Ah okay, I see... Windows sux (tm), as usual... ;-)
> 
> This will prevent my remote friend from actually seeing me control 
> his desktop, so although I will hopefully be able to fix his e-mail 
> client, he won't be able to watch me doing it, so he won't learn anything...
> 
> Thanks Windows...
> 
> Well anyway, looks like I am fully sorted and clued both on 
> Windows/RDP, and Linux/VNC, and ready to connect to his machine, so 
> thanks everyone who contributed to this thread, I much appreciated 
> the quick and efficient help ! :o)
> 
> Regards,
> 
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> Vince
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