What do you mean by Remote Desktop?
By lou_is
@lou_is (665)
India
May 23, 2011 2:49pm CST
My friend is working in some networking company. There if their clients face any kind of issues then he told that he use to remotely login to their system and he use to resolve the queries. But i don't know how he will access that computer and what exactly the meaning of Remote Desktop. Please let me know if you know about it. Thank you friends.
4 responses
@vinod4net (628)
• India
23 May 11
Remote desktop is a great feature of Windows XP and all other O.S released after that by Microsoft. You just need to have system I.P and Administrator ID and password to connect to a computer remotely. Its a great thing to know any issue on a remote system, it just feel you are working on that system itself. just type mstsc on run in Win XP to initiate remote desktop.
@vinod4net (628)
• India
23 May 11
It takes I.P for connection, if IP is on locall network it connects via LAN, if its IP over internet it then u need to select the connect mode(TCP/IP in case of of internet)
@petersum (4522)
• United States
23 May 11
Remote desktop refers to a number of different application softwares that allow you to view your desktop and "work" your computer from another computer on the same network. It has to be installed and setup on both computers, so it is quite safe to use normally. However, if the network is actually the Internet, then that is another matter! It can be hacked very easily, and your computer will be wide open for the hacker to do as he/she wishes.
I wonder if your friend's clients realize that he can see everything on their computers.
It seems a very lazy way to do business to me!
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
24 May 11
It seems to be a very complicated process . I can not understand how to do this . Can we do this on one desktop computer and another laptop computer . it's seems to be a very cool program so I can not exactly think what it can actually do .
@petersum (4522)
• United States
24 May 11
Of the many different programs, there is one called VNC which is available for many platforms. For example, you can connect Linux and Windows computers together.
Why would you do that? Well, you can have multiple computers but you only need one keyboard and mouse, and just one monitor!
@makatas (1098)
• Greece
6 Jun 11
It is software that will allow you to connect to another computer, view the other desktop and use that computer as if you were there and then. You can move the mouse, type, do just about anything.
It is essential in providing customer support on software problems remotely.
Probably the best way to do it is the Teamviewer application.
Do note however that if you need to use this for commercial purposes you need to buy it.
Have a nice day!
@hazelmike (48)
•
22 Sep 11
Remote desktop is a program that you can easily connect to your home pc remotely thru internet. It is also like you are seating in front of your computer.
