Controlling multiple PCs

My dear Lady,
Well, somehow I fell asleep with you on my belly... During the night I felt this heat and I just had to wake up... I woke up and saw you crying... Son of a#$@! What the hell did I do wrong? Now you don’t want to deal with me, and I don’t want to deal with you. At least not in your state…

I don’t want to fix the problem… you must realize that you are a little expensive. The plastic surgery it’s a real pain and I don’t want to harm you anymore. So I’m going to find some way to put you to work, some sort of desktop controlling software will do.

Well, Big Tom is fine, you will work with him… But I need help, and only the Blitzers can do it… or I will go to DBoers…

The end (die…)

Your master, xmlspy

Note: your picture...



Well, what software that is not stupid VNC (yes, stupid) is there that will allow me to control my now broken Lady? I want it to be able to control her from Big Tom(tower pc) all with ease and a simple interface. "One pc to control them all..."

KVM switch...

You forgot to mention what operating system you're using on both systems. If it's XP, then Remote Desktop is probably the best/cheapest solution.

Right-click My Computer, Properties, Remote, 'allow users to connect remotely to this computer'

then on the main computer, you can go to Programs -> Accessories -> Communication -> Remote desktop, and take over the screen. Very nice feature of remote desktop vs. VNC is that remote desktop virtualizes the desktop -- e.g. it will automatically scale to the resolution and such of the workstation that makes the connection, and has the ability to run in full screen mode. Also more responsive than VNC, and can map drives/printers/clipboard between both systems as well.

If the tower runs Windows 2000 instead of XP, you can also download the free terminal services client which uses the same protocol and can connect to remote desktop.

If the laptop runs windows 2000 you should be able to install the Terminal Server service, but unless you have a license server set up as well, make sure to run it in Administrator mode and not application mode, or you won't be able to make a connection after a 90-day grace period. Only Administrator can log in in administrative mode, though.