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Remote Access to another computer
iamcrazybob:
I second the Teamviewer recommendation. It's very easy to use.
lapa321:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 26, 2012, 02:39:25 AM ---this topic got me interested, i wonder if you could remote-control a PC through lan, so that i could take the monitor off the PC so its only the CPU working, and control it entirely with a single PC.
if it works i might setup every single PC i have into something like this... too good to pass up.
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My file/media server is an Atom D510 in the smallest/cheapest MicroATX case i can find. It's got power cable, a LAN cable and *nothing else*.
(Well, almost nothing, i connect the USB HD Dock when it's time to archive but that's beside the point)
I connect to it via RDP and it's actually pinned to my main computers task bar. I even have a Wake-on-lan and RDP installed on my phone so i can turn it on/shutdown remotely.
If you use RDP and go fulls creen it'll be just like a local desktop. And even supports multiple monitors. So if you have two monitors on your client PC, the RDP server will think it's running on two monitors (even tho there's nothing connected to it).
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: halfelite on April 26, 2012, 02:49:48 AM ---
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 26, 2012, 02:39:25 AM ---this topic got me interested, i wonder if you could remote-control a PC through lan, so that i could take the monitor off the PC so its only the CPU working, and control it entirely with a single PC.
if it works i might setup every single PC i have into something like this... too good to pass up.
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yes you can do this the question is why do you have so many pc's that you want headless.
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too many monitors cant fit on my table, i got 3units =( and maybe 4 if i'd need to pilot my brother's
and i only got two monitors usable XD so one is already headless, i just want to move the other monitor to my main and do a dual-monitor while i can still pilot the other two.
halfelite:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 26, 2012, 03:08:31 AM ---
too many monitors cant fit on my table, i got 3units =( and maybe 4 if i'd need to pilot my brother's
and i only got two monitors usable XD so one is already headless, i just want to move the other monitor to my main and do a dual-monitor while i can still pilot the other two.
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yes rdp is an option just go into the bios and make sure you can make it boot without a keyboard older mobo's would error other then that you are fine. Maybe its time to consolidate down to one machine.
kitamesume:
nah i cant, theres some tasks that occupies both keyboard and mouse cursor while doing them, so leaving another computer to do it while using some other computer to surf or something works better.
but to make it simple, the tasks im making the PC do will hog it and it'll become unusable for other purposes, so making another computer do it would allow me to use my main freely.
whats the definition of RDP? i know its an acronym... or its not?
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