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by mikey_tek

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I've connected from a Win98 machine to my XP
with quite a bit of trial & error (ran the Remote Desktop setup from XP disk on 98). Once I do connect, it's great, & reconnection is no sweat. It seems I have to have 'OFFLINE FILES' enabled though, to get it to work, and, I can't connect FROM XP to 98.
Also, I've tried to connect my XP to another XP machine with no success. Has anyone used this much? Any suggestions?

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by malcolm r

We use the XP-to-XP Remote Desktop all the time (also XP-to-Windows 2000). However, you can't RD from XP to a 98 box, because Windows 98 doesn't support the Terminal Services server (the technology that Remote Desktop uses to allow a connection to a PC). When you use Windows 98 to connect to an XP computer, you are using the Remote Desktop _client_ (which 98 obviously does support).

Malcolm

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