Þann Sunnudagur 26 desember 2004 17:31 skrifaði Kevin Krieser:
It doesn't come with Remote Desktop support (the reason I upgraded to Pro instead of home on my home computer, since I could avoid also upgrading PC Anywhere). Too bad that my ATI board would lockup the system if the TV was enabled and I tried RD :)
Remote Administration on windows, ok ... Remote Desktop is a joke, imo. Originally I said, that if you want anything of the sort, I'd suggest Linux/Unix and not windows. I took a "certification" course, several months ago and they used Windows 2000 to run it, and they took their servers to the certification locale which wasn't online. The entire system was bound on, that you could log into the system, despite it was away from the domain because Windows 2000 + XP (And I think NT in general) cache logins, so you can login to a cached domain session. They spent hours trying to get things to work, in that environment ... of course, you could say they were amateurs. But they were "certified" Microsoft Engineers and certified to certify as well. So, my overall estimation is that if you are in need of an environment with some centralized control, remote desktop and you chose windows xp, 2000 or whatever. You simply have gone ding ... windows is a flop in that environment. Especially with Remote Desktop, where really never get the same Desktop on different Computers, unless the computers are identical. And then there's the "disk space", to maintain all the "Desktops" and the initial wait to download them. Of course, Windows does have some nice "tools" for AD, for centralized control ... but you're really better off with an admin that knows what needs to be done, in a Unix/Linux environment. However, in a good windows environment with file and printer sharing, ones is usually just as well off with the Home edition. Because the XP Pro, doesn't provide diddly that people merely interested in file and printer sharing, and not centralized administration, want. The Windows users I've seen, generally think the damn login's are a neusance. Windows users, and companies that chose such environment, generally have very little clue about security and advantages of centralized administration. What they really want, is a Windows Home (Mac) environment and the rest is just some stuff they read in a magazine and want to look cool. My 2¢ worth, Örn