Live Mesh Remote Desktop: It works in Vista Home Premium too

Paul, you have to remember that Remote Assistance is also offered in home versions, and that technology stems from the Remote Desktop tree. the fact is that home versions have Remote Desktop support synthetically disabled because home users would typically only need assistance, not to remote into their home machine from work (power users would, but home versions of the OS aren't for them, now are they?). the underlying technology is still there, however, as Remote Assistance wouldn't operate without it. likewise, the same is true about Live Mesh.

www.logmein.com. Its free, and it works with ANY version of 2000/XP/Vista or OS X. Put it on every machine in your house and you wont need WHS. Remote a OS X box from a PC, remote a PC from a OS X box. its browser based and works with IE, FF or Safari.

"You need Thurrott-level knowledge to decipher what each edition does/doesn't." No, but I'm a system builder, and a Microsoft partner, so I HAVE TO KNOW. If I can't recommend the right choice to the customer, then I'm not doing my job properly. Knowing makes you a better salesperson too, and many customers of mine are repeat customers because they know that I make it my point to know. The customer themselves don't need to always know what the differences are, just that they trust the person that recommends the right option to them. I know that I don't trust most of the big-box store salespersons because their product training consists of a 10-minute seminar on selling the item with the highest markup. "The fact is, many IT professionals depend on features like Remote Desktop to provide support, and this crippling (inability to remote desktop into home editions via Windows Home Server) only serves to harm." Think about what you wrote just for a moment. Go ahead, I'll wait. Ok, now if you haven't realized your error, then I'll point it out to you: using the terms "IT Professional" and "Windows Home Server" in the same statement. Windows Home Server is NOT for IT Professionals. An IT Professional would know that. "I'm guessing it might have something to do with my router settings" I would bet that the problem is with your router and is (at least) one of the following: a) UPnP is disabled b) UPnP is enabled, but the router only supports SSDP and not IGD protocol options, and the software can't program port remappings (ie. port forwarding) automagically - set up port forwarding manually c) software, such as an extra firewall or privacy guard, is conflicting with your router hardware - sometimes this can be caused by spyware that's monitoring your network connections (or older stuff like New.net, which F*'s up the WINSOCK stack) d) it's an ISP-provided modem/router combo and common router options are disabled via the ISP's firmware customizations (this happens far more often than you'd think) e) your ISP is doing additional NAT, or port blocking between your modem and the rest of the internet

I'll second Lindy about www.logmein.com - I use it nearly every day to maintain and support a large collection of Macintosh a Windows computers remotely over the Internet and locally on my LAN. One correction, though - it is not (or was not) compatible with Mac OS 10.3 and earlier (ran into a problem with that on some older client machines). It is amazing, secure (at least according to what I remember from the Security Now podcast), and has been totally free.

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