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Story: Remotely control Windows XP from older operating systems

Posted by: Jake Rich (Saturday 11 October 2003, 6:24 AM)

I am really just a home user with a need to have two connections at the same time, 1 local and 1 remote -or- 2 remote. My wife and I use the Remote Desktop a lot when we are away from home, however, there are times when she is at home using the computer and I am at work and need to access a file from our home computer. She doesn't like getting kicked off when I log in. We would find it extremely useful if XP Pro supported two users at the same time.

I know that it is possible to set up a Terminal Server using Server 2003, but that is probably too costly for our needs. Is there any possibility that Microsoft will have some sort of "Terminal Server-Lite" for XP Pro and allow either 1 local user and 1 remote user -or- 2 remote users?

I understand that they need to keep their products differentiated in order to encourage people to buy the right product for their needs, but maybe by only supporting two simultaneous users, they will still leave the market wide open for Server 2003.