Re: how to share a host computer using "remote desktop connection"?

Tony Young wrote:
When I establish a "remote desktop connection" from a client XP
to a host XP, I always get a message warning that the host's
administrator will be logged out. That means if somebody works on
the host site, his/her session will be terminated without his/her
consent. Is there a way that both I and he/she can share the host
computer at the same time without interfering with each other?
Please help. Thank you for any advise.

Shenan Stanley wrote:
Not without using a third party application or a "hack" where you
replace a file with an older (beta version) of a file in Windows
XP. (Not even sure if you can do it with a third party application
the way you describe it.)

Tony Young wrote:
Another article I just read implies that two different administrator
users mutually exclusively dominates the host computer. But it also
says "If an administrator attempts to connect and is currently
logged on to the console, the administrator can connect to that
console session remotely immediately". Then are both sessions (on
host and client PCs) active at the same time? Or the host's one
will be suspended?

Either the article you read (please list its location) is for Windows Server
(2000/2003/2003 R2), in reference to "Shadowing" or in reference to the hack
I mentioned eralier.

With Windows 2000/2003(&R2) - you can have multiple Terminal Service(Remote
Desktop) connections. (Two remote, one console, and it is easy to share the
console session with another user.) With standard Windows XP - you cannot
do this.

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