If you are running XP on the PC, then you can use Remote Desktop Connection (free download from M$) on your Powerbook to connect to and control your PC. I do this every day to administer 15 servers that are 45 min away from me, and I do it over dial-up through a VPN (if there is a slower way to connect I DON'T want to know about it!). The screen refresh rates are quite acceptable and most operations can be completed in near real time. Obviously a full screen refresh will take a few seconds. The only thing you can't do is easily is reboot the machine. What I do is run msconfig, change a startup item, apply the change, undo that change, apply again and exit. You will be prompted to reboot or to exit without rebooting. Obviously reboot!
Another alternative would be to use VNC. Set-up a server on the PC, and use one of the many viewers for OS X (I use "Chicken of the VNC"). VNC is more bandwidth intensive and slower than RDC, but it has apps for most every OS including Palm and Newton (and nothing blows away those who consider themselves 'tech literate' better than sitting in a boardroom and using WiFi and VNC on a Newton to connect to your PC and email them the crucial document they need and didn't ask for until after the meeting started)
Moving the files to the PC is as easy as browsing your network and connecting to a share on that machine, but I'm sure you had that figured out already...
HTH Dave
On 12-Mar-04, at 18:17, Billy Bacon wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering if this is possible.
Reasoning:
I have a G4 Powerbook running Panther. I've been developing this .NET web site and got through the first phase of development with running Virtual PC on my powerbook and then installing MSSql Server 2000 on Virtual PC running WinXP. Yes, what a nightmare. It's very slow and lately it's been crashing a lot when I try to transfer/copy files from my Mac hard drive over to the WinXP side while working in the WinXP/VPC window/environment.
So what I'm planning on doing is buying a cheap PC (just the box, no monitor or keyboard/mouse) which will act as a server for the .NET web site. I'd still like to do my development on the powerbook but if I have this server on the same network, i should be able to move files to the server from my powerbook fairly easy (from what I've read). This is not possible with Virtual PC. With VPC I have to try to copy files while working in the WinXP enironment and this causes Explorer to crash quite often and I can't take it anymore.
Sorry for the long winded explanation. I'm just wondering if I buy a PC and put it on the same network as the powerbook, can I administer the PC from my powerbook over the wire (for example, install SDK's, reboot, etc)?
Thanks for any direction.
- Billy -
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