Detailed settings of "Remote Desktop Sharing"

When you go out to study or work, the Remote Desktop Sharing function will help you remotely control the computer in the dormitory or office, just like it is next to that computer. Click the tool menu in the main NetMeeting window, and select "Remote Desktop Sharing" from the drop-down menu. The remote desktop sharing wizard window is displayed. Perform the following steps as required.

Click Next. The screen saver Settings dialog box is displayed. After the password is set, the Remote Desktop Sharing Program is set up. Because Remote Desktop Sharing gives others full control over the computer, security is very important. In this case, you can run the unattended Computer Host of the Remote Desktop Sharing Service through NetMeeting's secure call on the Internet, and then access the shared desktop of the computer. Once the connection is successful, the computer that calls the host can operate the shared desktop and any program of the accessed remote host.

Administrators can give users the right to access computers through remote desktop sharing without having to give them accounts with administrator privileges. You can create a group named "NetMeeting RDS Users" and add these user accounts to the group.

To connect to your computer using the Remote Desktop Sharing Service, you must know the IP address of your computer or the name of the computer on which you are called. Click "help" and then "about Windows NetMeeting" to find the IP address of your computer.

When you access a Web page that embeds NetMeeting into the browser user interface, Remote Desktop Sharing is automatically disabled. It must be manually enabled.

If the IP address is dynamically specified, such as a dial-up network, when the network is lost, the Remote Desktop Sharing Service server cannot resume the Remote Desktop Sharing Service session. The solution is to enable the Remote Desktop Sharing Service to enter the inactive state, and "release all" in Windows IP configuration utility for Windows 2000 is winip0000.exe), and then "update all ", and reactivate the Remote Desktop Sharing Service.

If the RWWS option is selected to start Windows and the Remote Desktop Sharing Service is enabled on the host, NetMeeting assumes that RWWS is disabled automatically. NetMeeting does not correctly disable RWWS. Therefore, Remote Desktop Sharing is not activated when the computer restarts. To solve this problem, disable remote desktop sharing, activate RWWS, and then manually disable RWWS. In this way, remote desktop sharing can be successfully activated again.

If you restart the Windows 2000 computer after activating Remote Desktop Sharing and attempt to log on from the remote computer, the text in the "welcome" and "login" dialog boxes cannot be displayed. This does not prevent you from using remote desktop sharing to log on to the Windows 2000 host.

Note:When the Windows 2000 host is logged out but is not restarted, the text in the "welcome" and "login" dialog boxes will be displayed normally.

When using remote desktop sharing on Windows 2000, we recommend that you do not use system standby if your computer has this function ). The system standby mode can be manually executed in the "Shut Down" dialog box, or automatically executed by setting the power option in the control panel.

Disable Automatic System standby

1. Click Start, point to settings, and click Control Panel ".
2. Double-click "power options ".
3. In system standby on the power usage tab, click never ".