Re: OT: Remote Access To Someoby Else's PC?
- From: "Major Ninth" <MajorNinthREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:02:54 -0500
www.logmein.com doesnt even need the other person there, as long as the
puter is powered up and on the internet you can control it from anywhere as
if you were right in fron of it. Much easier than remote desktop (which
doesnt always work - i've had it rfuse to connect after multiple user
requests for asst, etc)
-john
"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:46d43fe7$0$32515$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It's trivial, really. Just use "Remote Assistance", a feature of Windows
XP (ALL versions) that is standard and built in. When the relative wants
help, they send you a Remote Assistance Request, and you have their
screen, keyboard and mouse on your computer .... but it's their computer
that you are operating.
It is exactly what you want. And you already have it (assuming that you
are both running any flavor of XP).
[It simplifies things if you both have Messenger [Windows Messenger, MSN
Messenger or Windows Live Messenger] accounts with each of you listing the
other as a contact, although it can be used without it as well.]
(PeteCresswell) wrote:
I started trying to pursue this in the Windows XP NG, but in
trying to sound like I knew something I think I confused the
issue.
Bottom
ine: ------------------------------------------------------------
- I built up a PC for a close family member that lives 100
miles away. An Asus MB, of course.... -)
- That person is a classic technophobe. i.e. not somebody
that you'd want to work a problem with over the phone. - To address
the inevitable and recurring problems this box
will raise, it occurs to me that I should figure out how
to logon to it and troubleshoot things from afar.
- I'm willing to put up a purchase price for some product or
another, but don't want to get wrapped up in some pay-by-the
month scheme as with RemotePC.
- Windows XP Pro, both boxes.
- Verizon Fios on this end, Verizon DSL ("Broadband") on
the other end.
- I'm figuring on driving to the other person's place sometime
this week, picking up the box, and bringing it home to work on - then,
when whatever remote access tool seems tb
working locally, I'll drive it back down there, get somebody
technically-inclined on my home PC, and try to get is shaken
down in it's final config.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Can anybody offer up some advice?
.
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