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nda - 24 Jun 2004 02:38 GMT

I am trying to figure out how to do a PC anywhere type
connection with a wireless pda to my desktop attached to
a lan. Anyone know how to do that?

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Sooner Al - 24 Jun 2004 11:12 GMT

If the home desktop is running XP Pro you can use the built-in Terminal Services Client to
access/control via Remote Desktop...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/resources/support/pocketpc/support_topic.
asp?cid=0&tid=15
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/getstarted/enableremote.mspx

If the desktop is running some other flavor of Windows, ie. XP Home/WinNT/W2K/WinMe/Win9X, then an
option is VNC...Get the desktop server software from...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

Get a PPC VNC viewer client from...

http://www.cs.utah.edu/%7Emidgley/wince/vnc.html

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>I am trying to figure out how to do a PC anywhere type
> connection with a wireless pda to my desktop attached to
> a lan. Anyone know how to do that?

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nda - 26 Jun 2004 16:54 GMT

Thank you, I will give it a try.

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