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 * REMOTE ACCESS TO YOUR DESKTOP

Introduction This lesson introduces the concept and application of remotely accessing a computer. The steps on how to set pcs at boths ends are given. Definition| Remote acess is when you are at a different location for example at home and you need to connect to your computer at work because you need to continue with some work that you started at the office.

Overview With Remote Desktop on Windows XP Professional, you can have access to all your applications, files, and network resources as though you were in front of your computer at work. You can leave programs running on the work pc and when you get home you will see these same programs running on your computer at home after you connect.

When you connect to your computer at work, Remote Desktop automatically locks that computer so no one else can access your applications and files while you are gone. You can always unlock when you get back.

More than one user can have active sessions on a single computer. This means that multiple users can leave their applications running and preserve that state of their Windows session while others are logged on.

Advantages of Remote Desktop are obvious. Apart from editing a document on the pc at work, you can even copy from pc at work and paste to a document at home. So ' THERE YOU GO

Remote access enables a variety of scenarios including
 * work at home - alone
 * collaborating - a collegue can open and edit your work
 * sharing a console - mulitple users can have different configuration sessions on one same computer

What you need

 * 1) both computers ie, the one to be accessed(eg in office) and the one accessing must be connected to Internet and/or LAN
 * 2) both computers must be running Windows XP or another compatible operating system
 * 3) appropriate user accounts and permission already set on the desktop to be accessed ie. you must specify which user can remotely access the desktop
 * 4) allow 'Remote Access on the computer to be accessed (in office)