Vista Fact or fiction x 2

[cmangle]

I've been told two things in the last couple of days and need some clarity!

I've been trying to get a new HP Pavilion Laptop with Vista Home premium to "Remote Desktop" a desktop PC with XP Pro SP2.

After all kinds of migraines, I call the HP Laptop tech support and they say that . . .

Fact or Fiction 1) "The Laptop with Vista home premium won't or cant
~Remote Desktop~ with the Desktop XP!"

Upon querying a few people I'm then told . . .

Fact or Fiction 2) "Vista Home premium wont ~Remote Desktop~ with XP
Pro but Vista Ultimate will, only with the computer name
and not with an IP!"
Hmmmm . . .

So can anyone shed some light here? Which of the above two F or F's is true or false ? Both None One?

thanks chris

[grudgelord]

I've been told two things in the last couple of days and need some clarity!

I've been trying to get a new HP Pavilion Laptop with Vista Home premium to "Remote Desktop" a desktop PC with XP Pro SP2.

After all kinds of migraines, I call the HP Laptop tech support and they say that . . .

Fact or Fiction 1) "The Laptop with Vista home premium won't or cant
~Remote Desktop~ with the Desktop XP!"

Upon querying a few people I'm then told . . .

Fact or Fiction 2) "Vista Home premium wont ~Remote Desktop~ with XP
Pro but Vista Ultimate will, only with the computer name
and not with an IP!"
Hmmmm . . .

So can anyone shed some light here? Which of the above two F or F's is true or false ? Both None One?

thanks chris

If I understand correctly, it sounds like XP Pro is the host and Vista Home Premium is the client. If this is the case then I believe that HP are full of dancing bananas when they tell you that you can't do that. I have no facts to support this notion (I haven't tried it) but I can find no documentation to the contrary; in fact, all documentation (both official and unofficial) suggests that all versions of Vista can RDP into any RDP host. More than likely its a firewall or authentication issue.

However, TCP Window scaling (which was disabled by default in XP/2003) can wreck havoc with older routers (apparently Ciscos, including Lynksys are culprits) which don't support scaling. This can include DNS failures and failed RDP sessions. You can turn off the autoscaling with these commands:

>netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled
>netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled


However:

If you are trying to host with Vista Home Premium and client with XP Pro then you might be screwed.

Vista Home Premium does not host RDP sessions. q.v. Windows Help Website (http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/02ddfbec-7a97-4788-9d54-86f174a95f841033.mspx):

You cannot use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to computers running Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Basic N, or Windows Vista Home Premium, and you can only create outgoing connections from those editions of Windows Vista.

So you may have to fall back to VNC for your remote connection or resort to other means (http://www.missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1220&Itemid=1).

Hope this helps.

[the highlander]

I have done it multiple times... Remote desktop from Vista to XP is doable.. For some reason when you do it the other way around its really annoying. This is due to the fact that vista has more user controls than XP. It requires you setup the same username and password as the local machine or that you know the username and password of a user, then it proceeds to log you on as an additional user. But you CAN do it. I have done it.

[eXceeded]

^^ yeah I have managed to remote desktop to multiple XP machines by creating another user on the target machine

[Frostbyte]

ditto. It can be done.