Hello friends,

I have a quick question about Remote Desktop. I have been experimenting with it and got it working great in my home LAN in no time. But when ever I access the host computer it always logs the person who I log on as. Now I understand this situation, for it might not be possible to have two computers logged into the same account, but I thought it was possible to keep the host logged in and they can even see the changes that the person on the client is making in real time.

How is this done? Perhaps it is a completly different program.

If anyone can let me know, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Edit: Also, one more question. Currently I am only connecting to computers that are accessing my Wireless LAN so I simply have to just type the name of the computer in an voila! But if I want to connect to lets say my computer at the office from my PC at home, how would I do that? I would think you'd have to install some kind of software on the host machine?

Thanks a bunch!

Hi azurepancake.

Due to limitations within windows XP, when you remote desktop to the computer, it locks the physical user interface out, so that only the 1 person can change this.

However, you can use software, such as UltraVNC or TightVNC to do this. Googling either name will bring back a nice list of docuents and sets of instructions


When connecting from outside of your network, you need to get your IP address that your internet provider has provided you (WhatIsMyIP.com - 64.118.92.20 is a good place), and connect to that from your office.
However, you will need to put a port forward on your router at home to the computer you would like to connect to. RDP uses port 3389 by default. VNC uses 5800 i believe - but i could be wrong.

Just the information I needed, couldn't ask for a more clearer, straight forward answer! Thank you very much.

No problems.
Let me know if you need anything else.


Marked as Answered for now.