Does anyone know of a way, aside from using PC Anywhere, to take control of an NT4 Server desktop from an XP client if NT4 is not the Terminal Service Edition?

Hya Obi1

Beside pcAnywhere there are a large number of 'third party' programs witch gives you control of another machine. Microsoft hasn't included such a program with Windows NT 4 though. All it included is Neetmeting, witch has a function to share a desktop. I havn't tried the program on a WinNT4 server, but I heard good things about it.

As for Terminal Server; you can't take control of the desktop, a new session will be started as soon as you login. That problem with that is that you can't control a program that is already running on the console (Main logon on the server itself).

Now pcAnywhere is a nice program, but it is way to heavy (bloated?) for just remote control. I've had great experience with RAdmin. But any program will do actualy. If you don't wanna use Netmeeting of course.

Hopes this helps,

Cheers!

peace

try /http://www.twd-industries.com >>> Remote Anthing
or

/http://www.remotelyanywhere.com >>> Remotely Anywhere

BOTH ARE EXCELLENT programmes

peace out

Thanks LeCactus and mohgg,

That is some good info and some great links. There seems to be some good options, and I was initially hoping that there could be some download like Server Management Tools or Administrator Kit or Resource Kit that would contain a tool to enable an XP machine to use RDP or something similar to work on NT4 Server.

I will try downloading some of the programs you guys have suggested, and will also experiment with Web Administrator for NT4.

I will write back once I see what works best. Thank you for your help.

:)

Try this page for the XP system which is usable on all versions of windows (within reason)

_http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/rdclientdl.asp

There may be security issues with MS, as usual

Hi Gfields,

I had already come across that. The RD client dowload seems to "...allows older Windows platforms to remotely connect to a computer running Windows XP Professional with Remote Desktop enabled."

But I am looking to do the opposite - the machine I want to connect to, or the host, is NT4 Server, and the client is XP Pro. Nothing in the NT4 Download page seems to discuss being connected from an XP client, except for Web Administrator.

Edit :

Please do NOT post rquests for cracks <_<



Last edited by BearCat at Aug 11 2002, 11:24 PM

sorry :rolleyes:

got head over B)

You could always try VNC - Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.

I use it every day to keep track of loads of servers and PC's on my network, both on my LAN, WAN and WLAN.

It's quick, FREE and easy to install. PLUS, you can use basically any modern computing environment to view other PC's running the VNC service, heck i've even used a Palm PDA to view a NT box! Heck, even the PC client is only 172k!

If you want an alternative to VNC, that's a little leaner on the bandwidth usage, then there is TightVNC: An Enhanced VNC Distribution, which is also free.

TightVNC includes the use of a new Tighter encoding scheme and is optimized for slow and medium-speed connections, thus generates much less traffic as compared to traditional VNC encodings. At the same time, TightVNC supports all the standard VNC encodings, so it can operate efficiently over fast networks, too.

Hope this helps.



Last edited by me101 at Aug 12 2002, 07:05 PM