Posted by Neil on 12/07/07 23:10

"Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote in message
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> Neil (nospam@nospam.net) writes:
>> One problem with remote desktop is that you can't transfer files or
>> transfer the clipboard contents (or can you?). I use those two functions
>> all the time.
>
> You can. You can configure this under Local Resources. I think clipboard
> is shared by default, so if you put something on the clipboard on the
> remote machine, it makes it to the local machine automatically.
>
> The way to transfer files, is a little funny, though. You make the local
> drives available to the remote machine, so that they appear as shared
> there. Since this is a security issue, it's not recommendable to always
> expose your disks.
>
> We don't use PC Anywhere in our shop, but we use PC Duo which is a
> similar product. About all customers has PC Duo clients on their
> servers, and that's how we connect to them. The major advantage is
> that with Remote Desktop, is that if someone else connect, you may lose
> your session. With PC-Duo you can see that someone else is there.
> And moving files is easier with PC-Duo than Remote Desktop.
>
>

So you'd recommend PC Duo over Remote Desktop? Is the performance as good?

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