Remote Desktop

Hi,
Hope someone will be kind enough to answer:

I have XP Media Center on two computers that work great with Remote Desktop
between each other. I have three other computers in the house (Linksys net)
running XP Home edition. All three of these can "see" the two computers
running Media Center with remote desktop; however, the two running Media
Center cannot see any of the Home Edition's, nor can the three running Home
Edition see each other.

MS help is terrible on this matter. The one thing I noted is that with my
XP MedCen, under properties in "My Computer," under the tab "remote," there
is an option to allow remote desktop computers, but there is no such option
under the Home Edition version of XP. Why is this?

I have tried without my firewalls running, I've messed with the settings
more times than I can account. I suspect a port is not open or something,
but everytime I experiment I screw up the network settings.

Hope that makes sense and I appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks,
--
Barry

XP Home can *NOT* act as a Remote Desktop host, only as a client.

Look at using VNC as a free alternative...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

--
Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the mutual benefit of all of us...
The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights...

"zeplin11" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:B245DE4E-006A-4D8F-A3E4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
> Hope someone will be kind enough to answer:
>
> I have XP Media Center on two computers that work great with Remote Desktop
> between each other. I have three other computers in the house (Linksys net)
> running XP Home edition. All three of these can "see" the two computers
> running Media Center with remote desktop; however, the two running Media
> Center cannot see any of the Home Edition's, nor can the three running Home
> Edition see each other.
>
> MS help is terrible on this matter. The one thing I noted is that with my
> XP MedCen, under properties in "My Computer," under the tab "remote," there
> is an option to allow remote desktop computers, but there is no such option
> under the Home Edition version of XP. Why is this?
>
> I have tried without my firewalls running, I've messed with the settings
> more times than I can account. I suspect a port is not open or something,
> but everytime I experiment I screw up the network settings.
>
> Hope that makes sense and I appreciate any suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Barry

Thanks Al. I appreciate it.

I don't understand why the Windows help info doesn't just say that.

I will try the link you provided. Thanks again.

Barry

"Sooner Al" wrote:

> XP Home can *NOT* act as a Remote Desktop host, only as a client.
>
> Look at using VNC as a free alternative...
>
> http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
>
> --
> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>
> Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the mutual benefit of all of us...
> The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights...
>
> "zeplin11" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:B245DE4E-006A-4D8F-A3E4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi,
> > Hope someone will be kind enough to answer:
> >
> > I have XP Media Center on two computers that work great with Remote Desktop
> > between each other. I have three other computers in the house (Linksys net)
> > running XP Home edition. All three of these can "see" the two computers
> > running Media Center with remote desktop; however, the two running Media
> > Center cannot see any of the Home Edition's, nor can the three running Home
> > Edition see each other.
> >
> > MS help is terrible on this matter. The one thing I noted is that with my
> > XP MedCen, under properties in "My Computer," under the tab "remote," there
> > is an option to allow remote desktop computers, but there is no such option
> > under the Home Edition version of XP. Why is this?
> >
> > I have tried without my firewalls running, I've messed with the settings
> > more times than I can account. I suspect a port is not open or something,
> > but everytime I experiment I screw up the network settings.
> >
> > Hope that makes sense and I appreciate any suggestions.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Barry
>
>