Does anyone know an alternative to Terminal Services Client?

[mjames_84]

Hey there, now that I've got my shiney new XDA Exec, with its VGA Screen and inbuilt Wi-fi I want to have a play with the Terminal Services Client to control my PC...I'm pretty sure that's what it can be used for right?

Well anyway from what I've read TSC can connect to (among other things) Win XP Pro computers with remote desktop enabled...however my computer only has XP Home so I can't do this, so can anyone recommend an alternative (possibly better?) program that I can use to control my XP Home PC using my XDA Exec....

cheers!

[sl9]

VNC (free)
GoToMyPC (not free)

There is more information in the "terminal services full screen" thread in this forum.

[yyl]

I have been using GoToMyPC for a long time. It's a subscription-based service. But I am happy with it. Very stable and functional. And full-screen.

[Carnivor]

prob with those apps is, terminal services connects to all modern windows operating systems and no extra software is needed, im not running round the country installing vnc onto everything, if its already got RDC/Terminal Services intergrated. On my work network i have access to 36k+ machines, yer 36,000 machines. all 2000,XP,2003, the other 30k machines are still NT or 98, upgrades aint a overnight thing!!!


so you see, not an option im afraid

*edit* what really grinds me is that i would have thought it was obvious to M$ that fullscreen should be an option, but as with the diabolical MSNM, the most obvious upgrades never appear, surlly in that groups aint a hard thing to do. and turn the bloody beeping off when ppl sign in.

Obvious things strategicly lost??

[alfredtv]

use www.logmein.com man its freakin great and you can use for free
if you put your device in landscape it is a clean view too

[cool_case]

z2remote2pc works a little better than logmein, I think. A little more control of the desktop with z2. LogMeIn is nice though.

[Carnivor]

but do these apps use the RDC protocol ? i cannot amend 30k+ machines just to do remote desktop, it has to be compatible else its pretty useless to me soz

[vijay555]

Carnivor, I presume your request is satisfied? (http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=29996&start=30)

Why on earth 30,000 machines? Heyzus!

What PDA are you using?


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[Carnivor]

30k machines is roughly the number of client machines the company i work for has. i have access to them all via TS, not that i need them all, i mainly access a handful of desktops that are mine, and the clients servers.

its quite handy to be able to wifi my desktop in the room next door when im standing at a rack in the server room as there is nothing but racks in there and an additional desktop in there would get easilly spotted.

im on a Jasjar btw, happy to test your app wink wink**

and i have VS 2005, is it poss for a 2003 project to be loaded into VS 2005 and compiled??? if you aint got it yet its a possibility

ps, ohh yes, im satisified, its what should have been done on theyre attempt ( M$ )

[vijay555]

Carnivor - I have Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. I'm waiting on RC1 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=31502&highlight=) because the tools I use in Beta 2 don't work properly on the WM5 emulator. As soon as I get a new version of VS2005, I'll sort through the WM5 issues and bang out a preliminary version for you guys to try.

The current version should still work nicely even on Wm5, but only in Portrait QVGA. However, a full landscape VGA version should follow soonish.

If you've got a spare VGA PDA, send it my way! I'm desperate :wink:

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[Carnivor]

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 2.0.50727

thats the version i have