Microsoft® Windows® XP Inside Out, 2nd Edition

Chapter 26. Remote Access Options

• Setting Up a Remote Desktop Connection to Another Computer

• Using Remote Desktop Connection

If you're like many twenty-first century knowledge workers, you have a computer at your office and another one at home. How many times have you arrived home, planning to catch up on some work, only to find that you don't have the files you need? Or worse, that you don't have the programs you need installed on your home computer? Microsoft Windows XP offers several features that enable you to retrieve the items you need without hopping in the car and driving back to the office.

At Home with Windows XP

Remote access is most useful in a business setting, so it should come as no surprise that Windows XP Professional is more capable ...