Microsoft remote desktop software a treat

I have been tinkering with VNC, IP Dynamics, and other remote desktop/VPN types of clients for quite some time. JohnLu suggested that I look at Working Remotely with Windows XP since it was free with XP Pro. So over the weekend i did. Got the server configured correctly I thought. Then tried to get the web client to work (as the help file suggested). I never could get it to work. I talked to John this morning and found out that there is in fact a Remote Desktop client under start/communications. Not in two hours of reading the Microsoft helpfiles was this mentioned. Microsoft helpfiles still suffer from the fundamental problem that they are written to explain functions and not to solve user problems. They can explain what every menu option does, but not how or when or why you might want to use any of them.

Now that I got it working, it is a breeze. Just type in password and I have full desktop control of my RAID machine in the basement. Now I can set it off to do things from three stories up. Nice trick… And FREE as part of Windows!