Trying to setup workgroup or remote desktop

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lonelyrobot

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I am trying to setup a workgroup between my laptop and my PC both of which are connected to the same wireless router (although the PC uses an ethernet cord)

I've tried looking for instructions on google and they don't work.

Any help would be appreciated.

I also would like to set up a remote desktop to access my laptop from my PC. My PC is vista and the laptop is XP. Any help on this would also be appreciated.
 
As far as the one computer being wireless and the other being wired (this makes no difference) With regards to setting up a workgroup for file sharing here are a few things you'll want to look into. Check to make sure that both computers are located in the same workgroup. XP likes to default to a workgroup named MSHOME (depending on the version) if the vista machine is in a workgroup named something else you will not be able to browse file shares on the other computer by typing the network name in the address bar. Make sure that you actually have the folders you want to share shared. Right click what ever folder you want to share and select properties and find the file sharing tab and adjust the settings there to meet your needs. As far as remote desktop goes, that's pretty simple the main issue is unblocking tcp port 3389 in your firewall so connections can come through. Once the port is unblocked (provided you have remote desktop enabled and provided you're on the same local network) it should be as simple as typing the computer's ip or network name and hitting connect.
 
Also, Vista has licensing issues with remote desktop. It's kind of like a 30-day trial in the sense that after (I believe) 30 days you will get a licensing error and not be able to use the remote desktop. There's a simple workaround for that though, but it requires deleting a key from the registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing

This entire key and all it's subkeys need to be deleted when you get this error.

I haven't experienced this problem outside of a corporate environment however. I don't use vista. So someone correct me if I'm wrong here. Reason I say this is our terminal server runs server2k so it's possible theres a licensing issue between vista and server2k
 
I don't think this would be a problem on vista business. (what I have, and have never had issues) Anyway, out of curiosity... when you remote to a vista machine in your corporate environment does it give the person who remoted in a new session or boot the person who is using the machine to a login prompt? If you're talking about going the other way (remoting to the server which is running terminal services) this is nothing to do with vista but has everything to do with the licensing on your server. If you want to run terminal services on a server for more than 30 days you have to have a license for every pc that connects because potentially the server can allow how ever many users to use the computer with their own desktop and such all at the same time. Thus acting like that many individual copies of windows running at the same time, that's how I always understood it. If you run it in administrative mode you can get i think 2 remote desktop sessions at once and I've heard rumors that you can trick it into letting you have 3 or something like that.
 
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