[thelist] Remote Desktop Client on XP Home?
Jono Young
jono at charlestonwebsolutions.com
Mon Jul 4 08:20:48 CDT 2005
I need a bit of help with a PC running XP Home. I bought a low-end
Dell a few weeks ago for the sole purpose of testing websites in IE 5
+ The Dell came with XP Home Edition installed. Recently, I
discovered that I can install Remote Desktop on my Mac so that I can
run and test IE 5+ (on the PC) right from my Mac's desktop. Cool! I
don't even need to use the PC to test those browsers, or do I?
Apparently only XP Professional can run Remote Desktop Services, so
it looks like I cannot use Remote Desktop on my MAc to access PC
browsers?
Does anyone have a suggestion? Are there Shareware/Freeware
applications for XP Home that do the same thing? I know very little
about XP Home as an operating system, I am a long time Mac user, and
pretty much bought a $200 version of Internet Explorer when I
purchased this Dell. Virtual PC is an option, but I really, really,
don't want to but that on my Mac. There must be another option, I
just am unfamiliar with it at this point, right?
Remote Desktop info for XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/getstarted/
remoteintro.mspx
Remote Desktop Client for Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?
pid=remotedesktopclient
Anybody else out there have a similar setup that works for them, or a
good suggestion?
Thanks.
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