Archived Forums. Windows Server Essentials. Sign in to vote. Connect your computer to the server Download the Connector software that helps you connect this computer to the server. Then how we are going to connect those computers. Wednesday, August 22, PM. XP and Vista are not supported as backup clients. You can manually join. Connector provides two functions: 1- Simple management of the server, creating shares and few other things 2- Connects the clients to the server that they can get backed up automatically.
If you have a network with a domain controller, and you are the administrator of this domain, your life is a little easier, because some of configuration changes required to get admin access remotely are made by Windows automatically when the computer joins the domain.
Configure your Firewall. Depending on the firewall that you use on the remote computer, you may need to change the firewall configuration in order to be able to connect the computer. If the router is configured this way, your computer is in high risk of being penetrated by hackers and Trojans. Alternatively, you can change the following Registry value to get the same effect: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.
In order to turn off this restriction, you should set the following Registry value: Windows Registry Editor Version 5. For more information about this Registry value, read here. Connecting the remote machine. After making the above changes, you should be able to connect the remote machine and get full admin rights. After a few seconds, Windows will ask you to type the user name and password for connecting the remote machine.
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2. WhatInStartup has an excellent facility built into the Advanced Options dialog for changing the instance that it is looking at.
So rather than a remote machine, I needed to change the instance of the program to get it focusing on the underlying system, not the Bart PE live system.
This was a brilliant feature. I was super pleased to find it. The Remote Desktop Application is one example. This quirky connection, running desktop remote on a Vista PC at home while connecting to a Windows XP machine at the office, is becoming more common as home users purchase new PCs.
Consumer adoption is taking place much faster than corporate network administrators are willing to roll out Vista in the enterprise. The Vista version of the remote connection software is very similar to the application found in Windows XP.
The key to getting the connection to work is typing in the full name of the remote PC. It should look something like this:. That means you could be on your own when it comes to troubleshooting. But that doesn't mean we can't help each other out.
I have been using this setup only a few days and I have yet to run into problems, but I am going to assume that some of you have. Share any problems you may be having with the remote connection scenario and tell us what steps you took to troubleshoot it.
This remote configuration is only going to increase in frequency; we should at least try to overcome whatever gremlins may lurk in the wings. Mark W. Kaelin has been writing and editing stories about the IT industry, gadgets, finance, accounting, and tech-life for more than 25 years.
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