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Remote Desktop between XP and 98

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by andy.platt

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I am evaluating XP for the company I work for, and have found that PCAnywhere 10 causes the Task Manager to become de-activated (may also be a combination of other software), and so want to use 'Remote Desktop' instead.

I have setup another XP machine, and can use this between them no problem.

I have also downloaded the Remote Desktop for Win 95/98 and 2000, and installed this on a few machines to enable me to connect from XP to all Windows platforms.

The problem is that I can connect FROM a PC running Win98 TO the XP machine, but NOT from the XP PC to the Win98 machine, just says that the machine cannot be found.

I know in XP you have to enable remote connection - do you have to do this in 98 as well, if so, where is the feature.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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by timwalsh

The remote desltop feature only exists in Win XP. You are given clients so you can connect to the XP machine from other operating systems, but the connection is only one-way. This functionality doesn't exist in other Windows desktop operating systems. The functionality in XP is provided by a subset of Terminal Services as found in Win2K Server.

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