Re: Connection from a wireless laptop to a PC (at home) -- PCTECH

Actually, you can. You have to change the setting on the Local Resources tab of Options. There you can make your local drives available to the remote machine. It's usually been pretty slow for me, as my outgoing speed is a lot less than my incoming on cable.

Vern

At 12:27 PM 11/21/2004, you wrote:

One big difference between Remote desktop and PCAnywhere.

Transferring files.  You can't do that with Remote Desktop.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vernon Hamberg" <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Connection from a wireless laptop to a PC (at home)


> Remote Desktop puts you ON your home PC, so that your laptop becomes like
a
> terminal, but all your key and mouse actions take place on the PC. But
this
> requires XP (probably Pro) on the home PC. And your laptop needs the
client
> - included with XP (again, probably Pro). But you can get the clients from
> MS for free.
>
> PC-Anywhere accomplishes the same thing, but you need to pay for it.
>
> This assumes you are talking about working on the home PC from another PC,
> not just using the PC as a file server and running the apps on your
laptop.
>
> On the home PC, to set up Remote Desktop, right-click on My Computer,
click
> on Properties, and I think the tab is Remote Users. You don't need to list
> yourself as a user if you are in the Administrators group. Otherwise,
enter
> your user info.
>
> Finally, when you start you laptop client, you need the IP address of your
> home PC on your local network. Very cool!
>
> HTH
> Vern
>
> At 03:07 PM 11/19/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi list:
> >
> >Extreme beginner's question here.  I want to be able to use the
> >applications and data on my home PC (in one separate room) from my
> >wireless laptop.
> >
> >What I need to do?  I read about REMOTE DESKTOP... is this the right
> >approach?
> >
> >Regards and TIA!!!
> >Peter Vidal
> >PALL Corporation
> >SR Programmer Analyst
> >5775 Rio Vista Drive, Clearwater, FL 33760-3137
> >
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