Re: XP question

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Patrick

I bow to your greater knowledge of flash drives and Lisbon. I have been to Lisbon staying at a seaside resort over the April 25 bridge. After that holday I bought my SatNav. What a place to get lost<G>! Oh another result of that holiday was to resolve never again to take Travellers Cheques.

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Patrick Keenan wrote:
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Patrick

A flash drive would work without a lot of configuration issues? The
exercise would probably be a healthy option <G>.

There really isn't a lot of configuration to do, it's basic file
sharing.
As to the flash drive, first, these have a tendency to suddenly and
irretrievably fail, so they can only be relied on for convenient
transport of files that exist elsewhere. Second, because of their
limited read/write cycles, they are not appropriate for installing
and running applications.

Running up and down the stairs can be regarded as an effective cardio
exercise (till someone trips), but I would suggest that visiting
Lisbon and not buying a transit pass is very effective and far more
interesting. Surprisingly, walking (or climbing) tours of old Lisbon
aren't really marketed to the fitness crowd. Perhaps they are
missing an opportunity.
-pk



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I have a few machines in the house - all running XP Home. I would
like to be
able to access one of the machines from another machine. I read
that pcanywhere can do this. I also read that XP has the
capability built in. Can
anyone give me some guidance regarding setting this up?

Thanks

If you want access to the files, disks or printers, this is basic
networking and file sharing, and is included in XP Home. It's
just a matter of configuration, and there is lots of information
about it. If you want access to the console - as if you were
sitting at the
keyboard of that system - that's an XP Pro feature called Remote
desktop. It's not included in XP Home, but there are other
products, pcAnywhere (not free) and tightVNC (free) are two, and
there are many others. Note that some corporate firewalls may not allow
this kind of activity, so you might not be able to control that
machine from your office. So if you can be a little clearer about
what exactly you want to
do, and from where, it will be easier to give you better
information. HTH
-pk


Simply want to access software on another PC from one location in
the home - no internet access - there is a LAN in the house.

So, to be clear, it sounds like you want to run an application
that's installed on the system in one room, on a system in another
room. For a lot of software, the only way you can do that is with a remote
desktop type system. The reason is that much software requires
files and registry settings that are local to the system it's
installed on. This is why you can't, for example, just copy the
files from MS Office installation from one drive to another and have
it work.
And there are other effects. If you use a remote desktop, the user
at the system you're accessing will probably be interrupted - or
they may interrupt you.

If you only want to access files, you just need to set up sharing
and permissions.

HTH
-pk

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