Access your computer everywhere

For computer fans, perhaps nothing is more ideal than anywhere you can work with your computer. If so, no matter how indifferent and ignorant, you will never fall into a bad situation, like when you come to the office, then remember that you have forgotten to copy the work that is unfinished at home. Where to meet customers, you can immediately introduce software running on your office computer without having to install anything on their computer, etc. If this is the case

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For someone who is in a hurry, all unnecessary mouse operations are more busy.Windows 2000, Me, and XP both allow setting up a cursor that can automatically move to frequently used buttons in dialog boxes.Click Start, Settings, Control Panel (or Start, Control Panel in XP), and click or double-click (select Printers and Other Hardware first if you are in the Categories view of XP, or select View all Control Panel options first). if you are in 'used commonly' view of Me).Here you select Pointer Options, check the box labeled Automatically move printer to the default button in a dialog box (the note line of this option changes slightly in Windows 2000), and click OK.

A few decades, this desire is almost impossible, now with the widespread and universal development of the Internet, that wish has become a reality.Using the Remote Desktop function available in Windows XP Professional version or using the 'virtual network' solution called VNC of RealVNC, you can achieve this dream.

The physical condition of the target is that your computer (called a server, probably a normal PC) must have Windows XP Professional installed and an Internet connection.The computer used to access (client) only needs to install 9x or more and install Remote Desktop software (included in the Windows XP Professional / Home installation disc).If using VNC solution, all computers only need to be installed at least Windows 9x version.And finally, connect to the Internet for all machines with the higher speed possible (if using ADSL is very good).

Remote Desktop solution

Setting up the server: Logging into the computer will be the server with the highest user account (administrator) or belonging to the Remote Desktop Users group (to check your account). Do you belong to this user group, select Start, Run, enter the command line lusrmgr.msc and press the Enter key to enter the Local Users and Groups utility.After logging in to the system, right-click the My Computer icon on the desktop (or in the Windows Explorer screen) and select Properties.At the System Properties screen, click the Remote tab, check the box labeled Allow users to connect to this computer, finally press the OK key.Full computer name should be recorded along with information about Domain and Group for future use.

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Figure 1:The computer's IP address appears in the 'Local Area Connection' dialog box.

Usually, the administrator account that is assigned to the administrator is allowed to be accessed remotely from other computers on the network.If the account you plan to use to perform remote access is not an administrator, click the Select Remote Users button in the Remote tab on the System Properties screen.If you see that your account name is in the list of Remote Desktop Users screen, then you can click on the button with Add label and then enter the name of the account that is allowed to access to the computer remotely, the names are separated. by a semicolon (;), typing is finished, press two OK keys sequentially to close all open windows.Avoid using passwords with white space for accounts that are allowed to access remote computers.If an account has not been assigned a password, you need to create it: Click Start, Run, type nusrmgr.cpl, and press the Enter key.Select each account and then click the Create a password button and proceed with the procedure to declare the password for the selected account.

Using experience shows that, instead of declaring the computer name for remote access, it is recommended to use the IP address.The procedure for viewing a computer's IP address information is as follows: Right-click the My Network Places icon, select the Properties menu.In the Network Connections window, double-click the icon labeled Local Area Connection, click the Support tab, the machine's IP address is a string of digits with 4 groups separated by dots in the IP Address (see Figure 1). .

Setting up the client (note, when performing this procedure, the Remote Desktop host computer must be active and connected to the Internet): If your computer runs other Windows XP versions, you must install some additional file on the Windows XP installation CD-ROM.Insert the Windows XP Home or Professional CD into the CD drive, click Perform additional tasks in the installation options list, select Set up Remote Desktop Connection on the next screen and then follow the steps. Install Remote Desktop function according to the instructions on the screen.

Solve firewall problems: If your computer running Remote Desktop is protected by a firewall, you should discuss it with your network administrator to configure the computer and the network, sometimes You must reconfigure network devices such as routers, gateways or firewalls so that the external computer can go through and find the device inside.

Remote access: After you have established an Internet connection, click Start, Programs (or All Programs). Accesscess.Communications.Remote Desktop Connection, enter the name / IP address of the computer to access and then press the Connect key (see Figure 2).You will see the Login screen of the remote server, after the login procedure is complete, the remote server will automatically lock it to prevent someone near by accidentally using it on another job.If you log in to a remote server with another account with a working account on this computer, you will receive a notification that another account is logged in first.If you click 'Yes' to continue, a message will appear on the remote server to request permission to connect.Now, if the user on the server presses 'No', you will not be able to access it.If no one is on the server, the message will automatically disappear after a few seconds, and you can log in.

Troubleshooting: As mentioned, if the client does not find the remote server by name, use the IP address.If it is not possible, consult a computer network expert to diagnose and find out the cause of the problem.It is also recommended to use the troubleshooting guide for Windows XP to investigate the recent Remote Desktop errors.The procedure is as follows: Click Start.Help and Support and then enter the search string 'Troubleshooting Remote Desktop' in the Search box, press Enter.You will see a list of topics classified by type of error message (see Figure 3).

VNC solution

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Figure 3:Use the Windows Help and Support function to troubleshoot remote network connectivity.

If you don't want to use the Remote Desktop function of Windows XP, you might consider using utility software with the same function.Here use RealVNC software (download for free at www.realvnc.com) as an example to guide the process of setting up and exploiting.

Installation: VNC software has two components, VNC Server installed on the computer used as a server and VNC Viewer installed on computers will access the computer running VNC Server (client).

At the computer used as a server, after installing RealVNC and if RealVNC is not running, click Start, Programs, RealVNC.Run VNC Server.The RealVNC icon will appear in the system tray.Double-click this icon to open the RealVNC Server interface and declare the required operating parameters.The system access password should be declared to be secure (Figure 4).Record the IP address of the VNC Server-installed computer to facilitate remote access via VNC Viewer (leaving the mouse pointer on the RealVNC icon located on the system tray for a few seconds will show the machine's IP address) .

Just like Windows XP Remote Desktop, if you need to access the computers behind the "firewall" you have to do some additional declarative procedures as described in Resolving "firewall" problem, refer to Online tutorial of RealVNC (http://www.realvnc.com/firewall).

Exploit: Click Start, Programs (or All Programs). RealVNC.Run VNC Viewer to start RealVNC, enter the IP address of the computer running VNC Server, click OK.Depending on the connection speed, you will see the desktop screen of the computer running VNC Server on VNC Viewer window.From now on you can perform all operations on VNC Server computer as if you were actually sitting at this computer.However, some functional key combinations like Alt-Tab are only valid for computers running VNC Viewer.This is a bit annoying if you're used to using Alt-Tab to switch between applications, but you can do this with your mouse.

Acceleration: Even if using a high-speed Internet connection, the VNC system can still run very slowly because the information transferred on the system is not merely data but also the interface images of the computer screen. calculate running VNC Server.To speed up the system, we should omit some unnecessary settings such as desktop images, mouse cursor effects, title bar decoration . The procedure is as follows: Double-click the mouse Go to the RealVNC icon in the system tray, uncheck the unwanted items like Remove Desktop Wallpapers ., finally click OK.Check out the VNC online user guide at http://worldworld.com/41724.

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