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RDP is being very selective
Posted on April 7th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Thanks The remote working one was at the bottom (on the home pc) I moved it to the top Still the same Did i do the right thing?

Max Logon Duration
Posted on April 7th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Disclaimer... I don't work in a domain environment so... There are some group policies that you can configure to log off idle sessions, etc. To look at the Group Policies run gpedit.msc on the...

Force RDP idle timeout
Posted on April 7th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Disclaimer... I don't work in an AD environment so... There are some group policies that you can configure to log off idle sessions, etc. To look at the Group Policies run gpedit.msc on the Remote...

Unable to map drive when connected via VPN
Posted on April 6th, 2008 | 4 Comments

You could use a lmhosts file that maps the computer name to the IP name. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314884/en-us Here is an example lmhosts...

VPN questions!
Posted on April 6th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Presuming you have file and print sharing setup on the other PCs he can use the form \\IP.Address\ShareName or \\ComputerName\ShareName to access the other PCs. He might want to use a lmhosts file...

Do the stats show?
Posted on April 5th, 2008 | 0 Comments

If a userlogs onto their main machine as their personal domain account, and use that to remote in via Windows Remote Desktop to another machine, logging into the remote machine as local...

Error connecting remotely
Posted on April 4th, 2008 | 3 Comments

See this... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427 -- Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows – Desktop User Experience) Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the mutual benefit of all...

Remote Desktoop
Posted on April 4th, 2008 | 1 Comments

"Ivan" <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D13FB975-B22C-456F-8461-4E313FAF9FF0@microsoft.com... By design the desktop on the PC your remotely connecting to and logging on to is...

setting up remote destop
Posted on April 4th, 2008 | 1 Comments

"scarletohara" <scarletohara@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4CFE0D2E-AC87-4E8E-B8D1-D8AE08EF908A@microsoft.com... See this page for general help with Remote...

Offline files question
Posted on April 4th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Hi, I am having a little trouble with offline files. I have configured this succesfully for my user account, to make my home directory (H: drive) offline. However if anyone else logs into this PC,...

Remote desktop messing up icons
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 | 2 Comments

That seems to have done the trick! Thanks Glen "techieguy" wrote:

Didn't setup offline files, but that didn't stop XP
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 | 0 Comments

My users have not specifically gone and setup offline files, but on a majority of the computers I have they are now syncing up offline files. I don't want this. In the users account we map a Z:...

How to disable printer installs on RDP connect?
Posted on April 1st, 2008 | 0 Comments

I have noted in the Event Viewer that whenever I connect an RDP session to a remote computer it tries to install drivers for all of the printers I have registered on my laptop (from which I work). It...

Connecting via Remote Desktop to another computer
Posted on April 1st, 2008 | 1 Comments

You can quite easily setup Remote Desktop (RDP) in host/server mode on a Vista Ultimate/Business or XP Pro/MCE machine for testing. Here are general guides for setting up Remote Desktop using stand...

Develop Remote Software Installation Utility
Posted on April 1st, 2008 | 0 Comments

Hi, I need to design a tool that can install software on remote client machine. Basically i need Deploy MSI, EXE, BAT etc. on various client machines without user interaction. There are lots of tool...

RDP - preventing shutdown while allowing restart
Posted on April 1st, 2008 | 1 Comments

What we do is creating a batch with shutdown -r command so that he can restart the computer. -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting...

Local Disk Drives
Posted on March 31st, 2008 | 0 Comments

My local drives are showing up during a Remote Desktop session, but I can't access them. I click on them and nothing. I right click on them and select Open and nothing. Any ideas?

Font smoothing suddenly stops working over RDC
Posted on March 31st, 2008 | 0 Comments

I use RDC all the time and was happy when 6.0 finally supported ClearType for XP machines. For months I've been using a Vista laptop to log in to an XP Pro desktop and font smoothing worked fine....

VPN Application Speed
Posted on March 30th, 2008 | 5 Comments

Thank you. I will try. -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access...

Remote Assistance Ticket expires too soon
Posted on March 27th, 2008 | 4 Comments

Glad to be of help... -- Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows – Desktop User Experience) Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the mutual benefit of all of us... The MS-MVP Program -...