Before attempting to connect to another system using Windows Vista's Remote Desktop Connection, first check to confirm the recipient system is configured to accept the remote desktop request. To do so, click Start, right-click Computer, and select Properties.
Also, ensure appropriate users possess remote desktop access rights. Click the Select Users button to configure users. Clicking the Advanced button displays this menu, which enables configure remote control and invitation timeout parameters. Click Add to provide additional users with remote desktop access permissions. After clicking the Add button to configure remote access permissions for additional users, Vista presents this menu.
Enter the names of users and groups for which you wish to provide access, then click OK. If you click on provided Help links, Windows Vista displays contextually relevant support information, including this passage covering Remote Assistance.
Before connecting to a remote system, be sure you know its computer name or IP address. You can confirm the computer name by right-clicking Computer from the Start menu and selecting Properties.
Here you can see the computer name displayed within the System Properties' Computer Name tab. The Remote Desktop Connection window will appear. Enter the name or IP address of the computer you wish to connect to and click Connect. Alternatively, you can configure additional settings using the Options button.
Both were helpful. Tom had what I was looking for. Apparently I was asking for the wrong thing. Windows Remote Assistant works for what I want to do. Donna thanks for the link. Grampy, Both of these procedures allow you to connect to a remote computer, but there is a major difference. With Remote Desktop Connection you have access to all of the files, applications, and resources on the remote computer, but while you are connected, the remote computer screen will appear to be blank.
Windows Remote Assistance, on the other hand, was designed to allow a technical person or just a friend or colleague to assist a user at another location with their computer or to show them how to do something. Both the client computer screen and the remote computer screen will display the same thing.
Now here is the bad news. Windows Remote Assistance can be used to access the Home editions of Vista, but you cannot use the Home editions to connect to other computers! So are you totally frustrated, yet? I think there are a lot of other Windows Vista Home edition users that are in the same boat. The good news is that there are several third party applications that will work for you. I would suggest that you give one of these a try.
And from Going back to step 5 system properties , my RDC doesnt give me the option to select users. The whole bottom portion of the screen isnt even on my systems properties screen. Please help. Click on the Start Orb. In the search box type winver and then press Enter. The office PC is on a basic Ethernet network behind a Linksys router. I know — I think I know!
You have just saved me some dinero as I was going to pay for some IT consultant snot nose to come and set this up for me.
Man you are awesome! I was getting sick of this, I couldnt get it to work on Vista. Im used to Windows XP you know. Anyways I might be switching to windows 7 soon. Thanks anyways, you saved my day! You already know thus significantly relating to this topic, produced me personally believe it from a lot of various angles. Your individual stuffs great. Now, you can specify how you want the remote desktop to look using the settings shown in Figure Q. The more features you add, the more bandwidth it takes.
The name of the game is that you don't want to accidentally hand over your user credentials to a hacker who might be intercepting your connection. Click Settings and configure the options as shown in Figure S. In this example, we're telling it not to use a TS Gateway server.
After you click OK, be sure you go back to the General tab and click Save As to save your entire profile. Otherwise, you'll have to do this whole procedure again next time. You can save it to the desktop for easy access.
Now click Connect and you'll be prompted for your username and password, as shown in Figure T. The first time you connect, you'll see the authentication warning shown in Figure U telling you that the server's certificate is not trusted yet.
To rectify this situation and force it to be trusted in the future, click the View Certificate button. As you can see in Figure V , this self-signed cert generated by the Vista RDP host machine is valid for the next six months. At this point, you'll be securely connected to the Vista RDP host, but more important, future connections to msi-p won't result in any warning signs or even password prompts.
It will simply connect in a secure manner, and any warning signs must be viewed with a critical eye. If you try to connect by any name other than the one you used to originally generate the certificate in this example, it's "msi-p" , you will see a warning like the one shown in Figure AC. You'll then get another warning, like the one shown in Figure AD , that tells you there's a name mismatch and that the server name on the certificate is incorrect.
This isn't a bad thing. You can view the certificate and it will say it's for "msi-p" and that it's trusted. You're just seeing this warning because the RDP client is comparing the name on the certificate with the name of the computer you're connecting to.
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