Remote Desktop Issue

Brother.. I've really shot myself in the foot here Allow me to lay out what has been a complete disaster...

I want to use remote desktop to access my home desktop pc from on the road. I'm running Vista HPx64. Of course it doesn't support terminal server. There is however a little reg hack out there that will make it work. (Just google "remote desktop on vista home premium" and visit the first link) So! I run the little hack thing, and it works. it starts the service, and I can now RDP into my desktop from my laptop.

Now to describe the problem...

When I login to the remote desktop session from my laptop, it doesn't show the proper desktop profile on my desktop.

Example, right now I'm typing this on my desktop. Firefox is open with several tabs, one of them being this forum post. So, if I were to open a remote desktop session from my laptop right now. I would login using the same account, my main administrator account, I would get a blank desktop.

I would >not< see the firefox that is already running. Also if I were to try to open firefox in that RDP session, it would say its already running. Which it is! I guess.. although I can't see it running in my RDP session.

Same is true of closing programs. Lets say I'm logged into a program on the desktop, but I want to close it. So I RDP into the desktop from my laptop to close the program, but of course I can't close it because my RDP session begins with a fresh desktop, and I can't see any of the already running programs.


So whats causing this? Some thoughts that popped to my mind were obviously the registry hack I used to get terminal services up and running in the first place. Also I was thinking maybe its a concurrent connection issue. When I first did a remote the first few times I was closing the session by the little x, rather than actually logging out. Of course I have rebooted both machines several times in attempts to combat that.

I just want to be able to RDP into my desktop from my laptop, and actually see what I see on my desktop. I want to open a program and it show on both screens. I want to see the programs already opened, and close it (and have it close on both screens). Maybe this isn't what remote desktop does? Perhaps the issue is I don't understand what is and isn't possible. Either way this stupid little project of mine has me super pissed, and any thoughts anyone could add would be more than appreciated.

Thanks,

-jt

Jt

It seems like you are making it more difficult on yourself than you need to. Im sure with enough tweaking you could get it to work, but there is an easier way. I do the exact same thing daily using teamviewer. all you need is the session and password id's which you create and can get before you leave. It doesn't even require opening firewall ports. it true wysiwyg,

Hope this helps

Ken

Wow, file transfer and everything. You're right, this was exactly what I wanted to do.

I hope I didn't **** my registry that bad with that hack.. I'll just stop terminal services and should be fine.

Long live teamviewer!

Thanks Ken!

-jt

jtfan said:

Wow, file transfer and everything. You're right, this was exactly what I wanted to do.

I hope I didn't **** my registry that bad with that hack.. I'll just stop terminal services and should be fine.

Long live teamviewer!

Thanks Ken!

-jt

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No problem JT. as a long time on call 24x7 IT guy I had to figure out something or go into work at 3am 2-3 times a week. If you need help with let me know

Good luck

Ken

www.teamviewer.com
check it out for the remote desktop support!!!!

jtfan said:

Wow, file transfer and everything. You're right, this was exactly what I wanted to do.

I hope I didn't **** my registry that bad with that hack.. I'll just stop terminal services and should be fine.

Long live teamviewer!

Thanks Ken!

-jt

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Zigzag,

I actually have the exact same question as JT, but know tha it can be done through the normal remote desktop assistant, and would like to know how that is accomplished. The reason I know it is possible is that I used to do it all the time. I would be logged in here at home, running multiple programs such as downloads video streams or something of the sort. When I would go to school, I could use the remote desktop into my home machine, it would show me the exact same desktop as I had been using at home, and I could close programs, see progress of downloads, etc. Something that I have installed in the last month or 2 has stopped this from working and now I keep getting the "fresh" desktop as JT described. When I open up programs that I was previously running, like TVants or active download sessions, they are all blank because they are for some reason running on my main computer, but not in the remote session that I am accessing it through now. Do you happen to know what could have caused this change or how to fix it? I do not require multiple concurrent sessions, and just want the one session open whether it be from sitting in front of my desktop or logged in remotely, but I just cannot seem to get this to work anymore.

When I used to do this in the past, if I were here at my local network, I could watch as I RDP'd in from my laptop that it would send my desktop screen to the login prompt, and my remote session would show exactly what I had on the main screen. I could open up new programs, close the remote connection, and re log in to my main machine and see the new programs that I had opened remotely. For some reason though, this is no longer the case, and I do not understand why. Any help would be appreciated, but unfortunately, I do not know what I installed that caused this to change.