And if you're both trying to use the computer at the same time, it's even more fun! Of course, this has security implications if you remote into a machine that an Administrator is logged into, you'll effectively be an Administrator. VNC follows the older model of simply showing whatever is on the screen with no forced logins required. And in those situations, you want TightVNC. Point #1 is in stark contrast to 'old school' remoting programs such as pcAnywhere and Carbon Copy, which simply displayed whatever happened to be on the client's screen- sort of like virtual video adapters. I suppose this is to keep us from setting up our own OS/360 timeshare boxes.

You can only have one active Remote Desktop session under XP, and two sessions under Windows 2003/2000 server. in fine Microsoft tradition, it's intentionally crippled.It even remembers the position of windows when moving them back. Fortunately, UltraMon has a convenient one-click taskbar enable/disable function for the alternate monitors. it can't handle multiple monitors in any way you'll only see the primary monitor.Except in the special case where you log into your own session. it insists on treating every remote login as a separate user session.It does have a few annoying limitations, though:

Remote desktop is great stuff, and it's basically free. Over a fast network, you can almost convince yourself that you're using the local machine. It's the next best thing to physically being in front of the target computer- and it's by far the fastest remoting protocol I've ever used. Microsoft's Remote Desktop is incredibly convenient.

Vnc vs nomachine