[PLUG] Help me help a hapless WinXP user

[Dale F. Victor]

Hello!

If my memory is correct Windows XP Pro has the ability to remotely hook up to 
another computer and allow the remote person to do things to that computer 
just like they were sitting in front of it. If this is true which I am pretty 
sure it is - I saw it demonstrated on "The Screensavers some years ago - then 
you could get control of the computer and use the ftp client on that computer 
to transfer the files to it. Of course you would have to have the files on a 
server somewhere.

Dale


On Wednesday 12 April 2006 05:14 pm, Michael M. wrote:
> Aaron Ten Clay wrote:
> > On Tue April 11 2006 19:23, David Tod Sigafoos wrote:
> >> Michael,
> >>
> >> one of the many vnc's should work .. check out realvnc.com
> >>
> >> The only heartache will be getting the router to forward the port
> >>
> >> Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 6:40:20 PM, you wrote:
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> MM> Ideally, I would be able to have any and all remote-desktop
> >> MM> capabilities, but I think Windows only provides that from one
> >> MM> Windows machine to another, and even then only in XP Professional.
> >
> > The 'rdesktop' program can be used to connect to an RDP (Remote Desktop
> > Protocol) server, which is what WinXP uses for desktop sharing. It's
> > free/OSS, I use it to connect to my family's PCs and help them with
> > issues now and then.
> >
> > -Aaron
>
> Thanks both of you for the suggestions ... I'll check them out.