Windows XP Professional
:?: Is there any advantage over XP Home for a home machine?
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Hi nicksteel,
Not really :) You only get some additional service on the Prof. version. So if you intend to use it as a home OS, then XP home edition is just fine. -kwag |
XP Home sucks, especially if you have a home network, it is too restrictive compared to the Pro version.
When I order a new PC I always specify that I am willing the pay the extra for XP Pro it is well worth for me at least. :) |
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Because the TCP/IP stack is identical in both versions! Or is it that there are some wireless utilities in the professional version that I'm not aware of :roll: -kwag |
Hi Karl,
It is more to do with security with Networking, on the home edition you can only have the simple file sharing when sharing folders over a network, but on the Pro version you can have password protected folders. This is what made me change. |
Just a little more thing : a basic "default" installation of XP Home takes twice more space on the HD than the same on Pro. Simply because of all the themes and sounds that are installed for nothing.
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:D Thanks, Guys.
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Out of curiousity has any one used Remote Desktop on XP Pro?
I have a couple of PC's on my home network and I wanted to be able to remotely control my other PC over the LAN. I just wanted to know just how secure it is, both machines run Kerio Firewall im just nervous that maybe this could exploited by a hacker? Can anyone put my mind at ease before using it? Sorry for the OT btw. |
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For my personal stuff I use VNC, for professional teleassistance we use Timbuktu. |
Sorry for hijacking this topic but I promise this is the last off-topic question. :oops:
I was going to use TightVNC would you recommend that Phil? Again sorry for the off-topic |
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Thank you very much Phil for that info. :)
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How about VPNs?
Does somebody know how to do it? |
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Thanks for the recommendation Karl, I shall give that a try. :) |
Great Michael :D
BTW, it also has file transfer, and works lke a charm :cool: -kwag |
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I wanted to use this to control my other PC over the LAN and wanted to test RB-Farm and start the 2nd PC remotely, this tool will help me loads. :) The file transfer mode sounds awesome also, thanks again. :D |
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I mean currently I have (real)VNC server on my PC at home. I use (real)VNC viewer from my office. With it I can also access to (real)VNC server on the PC of my foreign custumers. If I install ultravnc here and at my home, will I be abble to control my custumer's PCs ? Or do they have to install it also ? I really need to know that. Thanks. |
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Usually our SMB customers have RealVNC server installed on their server systems. So, with UltraVNC viewer installed on my office workstation, I've been remotely managing customer systems for ~1,5 years. BUT, you won't take advantage of using UltraVNC viewer when you connect to a RealVNC server. So forget about encryption/file transfer/chat window/etc. And even forget the best part :arrow: the logical video driver used by UltraVNC viewer that provides low CPU usage on the VNC servers ;-) This is a must for low end old workstations like PIII500's that some of our customers still use. Downsides of UltraVNC :arrow: it's being developed only for usage under M$ Windows :evil: . No Linux/BSD compatibility... As for VPN, I can only say that OpenVPN has been credited as the best VPN product by severall entities. Still, I haven't given a shot at configuring OpenVPN at the office because it's based on "certificate-based public key" encryption and it's a bit complicated. Take a look here http://openvpn.net/ A nice GUI for Windows here http://openvpn.se/ And another GUI for Windows here http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvpnadmin/ Edited Downsides for OpenVPN: there is still no Pocket PC client software. But the same applies for real IPSec (I'm not talking about M$ horse sh*t L2TP that they call IPSec). Edited Downsides for IPSec/L2TP: big known vulnerability still under investigation... Downsides for PPTP: That is not real encryption :lol:. Good way of protecting yourself at home: http://m0n0.ch/wall/ That's a Firewall and VPN server running under FreeBSD 5.4. Then you can install m0n0wall on a Soekris box http://www.soekris.com/. This one is a very small PC appliance running on very low voltage consumption. Edited m0n0wall/pfSense are also known to run very well on Nexcom mid-end product appliances http://www.nexcom.com.tw/0330/nexweb...=Prod*10000124 Edited Remember that m0n0wall is all configured with web browser and that it currently supports VPN server for PPTP/IPSec and OpenVPN in beta stage. It's the best low end router that I've seen appart from http://www.pfsense.com/ which is actually a fork of m0n0wall. It can also run on a Soekris box although it could use some more stamina... pfSense will be the "de facto" router/firewall/vpn server of the near future. It has plugins for everything you can think of and it will even be able to work in a cluster environment configuration. It even supports DiffServ QoS for VoIP applications in your LAN/LAN or LAN/WAN. Unfortunately it is still in beta stage around 0.70. Soon they will close the new features and start killing the bugs for the launch of 1.0 latter during this year. Now go play VPN/remote managing kids :lol:. Cheers |
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RealVNC took automatically the new adress. |
Phil...I'm affraid I don't quite understand what VNC (Real or Ultra or whatever) would have anything to do with auto IP change from the ISP.
If your IP changed you have to point any VNC viewer to the new address as long as you know it. Otherwise run a good DynDNS tool and go for name instead of IP. Preferably one which doesn't suffer from exploits. Otherwise I may have misunderstood you. Cheers |
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Today this adress has changed and the evening I will check again the log to see if it still reports the previous IO. It seems to me that the IP served is took when you launch winVNC and is not updated afterwards. EDIT: OK, my fault. That was the rules in my firewall that I forgot to update to tell what was owner of port 5800 now :( |
There you go.
Gotta keep an eye on those rules all the time :). It has happened to me many times already. I hope you'll re-try UltraVNC and I also hope it will work as good for you as it has worked for me - so far ;-). Cheers |
I wanted to use UltraVNC because I wanted to test RB-Farm to test out the multi PC movie processing and I could launch the RB-Farm in the other room via my LAN without leaving my RB-Farm serving PC.
I did a test with RB-Farm and it halfed the encoding time unfortunately I got a buffer underun Problem from RB Pro on the Rebuild stage but I don't think RB-Farm was to blame for that maybe a setting in DVD-RB I did wrong. Sorry for the OT. :oops: |
Btw, I'm using XP Pro. Do I have to tick configure MS Logon II & Configure Admin Properties?
Thanks for the help guys. EDIT: Also does the software need installing on both machines or is there just a simple viewer to download for the remote PC accessing the Server PC? |
Are these softwares better than PCAnywhere, and other commercial softwares? Take it so much resources as PCAnywhere does?
Does mouse pointer go jumping? |
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-kwag |
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But where ever you click the dot, even before the mouse pointer reaches it, the mouse event will be acknowledged. -kwag |
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