Enabling remote connection

[Guest]

I am attempting to remote to a friends system to help with issues, i want to connect remotly. In the system properties it allows you to invite others to remote in, but it doesn't allow you to allow remote connection(as Win XP Pro does ) is there a way to do this?

 

[Sooner Al]

No, XP Home can only act as a Remote Desktop client and *NOT* a host. An alternative is UltraVNC
which also includes an encryption plug-in, which I recommend if you use it over the public internet.

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
http://home.comcast.net/~msrc4plugin/

But, with that said, if you are also running either XP Pro or XP Home why not use Remote Assistance?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/focuson/remoteassist.asp

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I am attempting to remote to a friends system to help with issues, i want to connect remotly. In

the system properties it allows you to invite others to remote in, but it doesn't allow you to allow
remote connection(as Win XP Pro does ) is there a way to do this?