Enable XP Home as a Remote Desktop?

[Tony]

Is there any way to enable Windows XP Home to be a remote
desktop without upgrading to XP Pro?

[Sooner Al]

No, but you can use VNC or NetMeeting Remote Desktop or Remote Admin (which I have not used) to
access/control a XP Home box remotely...

Get the VNC or Remote Admin software from...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
http://www.deltasoft.hr/remote/index_en.htm

For help with NetMeeting RDS look at this KB article. NetMeeting is built-in to XP and can not be
upgraded...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;233175

Note that the VNC data stream is *NOT* encrypted so that is a potential security problem if you use
if over the public internet. Some folks run VNC through VPN tunnels to get around that issue.

Or...update to XP Pro...:-)

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"Tony" > wrote in message ...
> Is there any way to enable Windows XP Home to be a remote
> desktop without upgrading to XP Pro?


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