As a situation I am sure many of you are familiar with. I am the first choice computer technical support for family. Primarily my father who lives an hour north of me.
Trying to visualize what he is seeing and doing as well as giving clear instructions by verbal descriptions alone is quite challenging and often frustrating. Many times his questions could be simply answered if I could see his desktop. Does the Windows Remote Desktop tool allow this? I use it frequently to access servers remotely at my day job. But I have never before needed to know if it shares the visual desktop with somebody sitting in front of the system, or if it logs in as a separate account in a multi-user fashion. In other words, if I could connect to his desktop with Remote Desktop would I see the same view that he is seeing on his monitor? If it does, how difficult is it to set up Remote Desktop to connect two personal computers over the wild internet through two DSL routers, one at my end and one at his. Luckily we actually have the same routers from by the same internet service provider so what works for me should be exactly the same for him. Finally is this a really dumb idea? Will we just be opening his computer, if not both of ours, for a world of hurt by opening them up to remote desktop connections even if they are properly secured, firewalled, and virus scanned? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:299729 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
