If you want, you can also click on the Select Users However, be informed that users who are members of the Administrators group can connect even if they are not listed. Note: Remote desktop is only included in the Professional, Business and Ultimate versions of Windows. Home editions do not have remote desktop. I will establish a remote desktop connection from my Windows XP machine to my Windows 7 laptop. Summary Remote Desktop is a great feature, it allows you to connect to a remote machine and work with it as if you were sitting in front of it.
In our case we will select the option with Network Layer Authentication since we only have Windows 7 machines on our network. If we select the less secure version, we will be able to connect to this machine from Windows XP or even older versions of Windows. Network Level Authentication will first authenticate the Remote Desktop connection before opening the actual session. By default only members of the Administrators and Remote Desktop Users local group are able to make connections to a client running Windows 7 using Remote Desktop.
On the Remote settings tab, we can click on the Select Users button, and add additional users to this list. Those users will be added to the Remote Desktop Users group. This list displays all the current members of that group. This will open the Remote Desktop Connection software. On the Geearal tab we can specify the name of the remote computer. We can also specify the username we want to use to connect.
We can also save this actual connection as a connection file. This way we will be able to simply double-click on that connection file and the remote session will start with our saved settings. On the Display tab we can show the Remote Desktop session in full-screen or use different resolution, depending on our computer screen. We can also choose the color depth of the remote session.
Lower color depth can give us little better performance. On the Local Resources tab we can specify the audio, keyboard and devices and resources settings. Click Add. Step 2 -- Remotely Connect to Another Computer 1. Click Start Control Panel. Click on System and Security. Click on Windows Firewall. Click OK. We love feedback! Makes it easier to use Remote Desktop in fullscreen mode without needing to remember keyboard shortcuts.
Prints to network computers connected to the host computer from within the Remote Desktop session without having to install additional drivers. Redirects additional devices local to the host computer to the remote client including serial ports, smart cards, disk drives, and supported PnP devices such as media players and digital cameras.
Specifies a program that should automatically start when your Remote Desktop session is established. Specifies the connection speed closest to actual available network bandwidth to obtain the optimal mix of functionality and performance for your Remote Desktop session. Specifies that the RDC client should attempt to re-establish a connection with the remote host if the connection between them is unexpectedly terminated.
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