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Buying laptop with Vista Premium. Will that be compatible with my work's
network which is Windows 2000? I want to be able to remote access work
network and perform wordprocessing, check email
 
LDL said:
Buying laptop with Vista Premium. Will that be compatible with my work's
network which is Windows 2000? I want to be able to remote access work
network and perform wordprocessing, check email
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Best to ask in a Vista newsgroup.
 
From: "LDL" <[email protected]>

| Buying laptop with Vista Premium. Will that be compatible with my work's
| network which is Windows 2000? I want to be able to remote access work
| network and perform wordprocessing, check email

You would have to ask your work's IT department for software that is Vista compliant to
remote in.
 
Hi LDL

I remember that Vista requires to specify a user and a pasword for any
network access to Vista from any computer. It is so or there are similar
things involved, but, at least for example, you cant use shared folders
directly. I can be wrong, I didnt make any test but I remember that. So,
it doesnt matter if you have win 98, 2K or XP to establish the network,
Vista behavior is the same, for me it is really a safer method, since
usually any
machine in your network can place an infected file within a shared folder,
and usually, there are few persons that you "permit" access to your shared
folders.
It is safer but there is a price, to configure paswords, etc.

Another viewpoint is that u re speaking about remote computing,
and this is another very diferent thing. It depends on how you implement
the conection and there are various ways to do it. For example,
you can install LogMeIn on your Vista computer, and I believe
you cant have any problem to access your computer from any
Win98, NT,2k,Xp if both machines are connected to internet.
Now, the point is that LogMeIn can have its own problems.
Again, as you win some aditional thing, you have to pay some additional
effort for it.

hope this helps, Carlos.
 
excuseme I wrote
" usually any machine in your network can place an infected file within a
shared folder"
sorry I m wrong here, I remember it is not so for XP, so I m wrong on my
conclusions.
 
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