There can be only one active login session with Windows XP Pro. When you are logged in at the local console with one username, and then come in over Remote Desktop (RD) as another username, the session that is active on the console cannot be continued nor switched to the remote desktop, because of the username difference. (If it did, then there would be two sessions active). If you come in over RD as the same user logged in on the local console, the existing session is switched to the remote console.
With Remote Assistance (RA), the remote console and local console are both active simultaneously and share the same session. BUT, the local user must give permission to the remote user before that can happen. Therefore RA is not a solution for remote access to an unattended workstation. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernie Cosell Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 5:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Doing things on another system I *think* that "remote assistance" is what I want, but I don't understand it enough to quite know: I've been using my laptop on a local wireless net here. My desktop is the 'main computer', with the modem and the shared RAS connection. The desktop also has some other things that it'd be nice to get at occasionally.... Anyhow, it'd be nice at least to be able to hang up and dial the RAS connection 'remotely' from my laptop [I have the connection set to 'dial when needed' but that doesn't seem to be working, so I just walk over to the desktop and click the dial-icon... similarly, when I'm done with my laptop, I trek over and explicitly hang up the connection]. I thought that maybe remote-desktop would be OK, but when I try to remotedesktop over to the desktop system, I get "user bernie will have to be logged off.. I have *NO* idea why it feels the need to log me off before it'll let my laptop remote-in [I remote in as an administrator acct]. So in doing more poking [and learning essentially nothing about why it feels the need to kick me off before it'll let me remote-in] I read a little about 'remote assistance' -- if I have my desktop ask my laptop for remote assistance, I *think* that'll let me basically run the thing from the laptop [as if I had two screens on th elaptop, one the laptop's and the other the desktop's, and so I could run programs, dial/undial, etc... is that true? I couldn't find a tutorial about how the remote assistance really works, only how to ask for help.... Thanks! /bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
