printers and drives through Remote Desktop

[Guest SP_1]

Hi

 

I'm on a Vista Home Premium PC - connecting to an XP Pro PC through Remote

Desktop Connection. While on the remote session, I open the My Computer (on

the XP PC), and I can see all the drives on that PC plus all the drives on

my Vista PC. I can copy files between these 2 PCs. The same thing with

printers, while on the remote session, I open Printers And Faxes on the XP

PC, and I can see all the printers on that PC plus the printers on my PC.

 

Now, also from my Vista PC, I'm connecting to a different XP Pro PC. The

problem is that I do not see all the drives of both PCs in the My Computer

(eventhough I already checked the Drives box for connecting the Local

Drives). The same problem goes for the printers. I do not see printers of

both PCs in the Printers And Faxes (eventhough I already checked the

Printers box for connecting the Local Printers).

 

How can I fix this ?

Thanks

Steve

[Guest JakeSpleen]

RE: printers and drives through Remote Desktop

 

Well it looks like a problem on the target pc, not your vista box. It would

be nice to compare the services running on both xp pc's and to see if both

hard disk are shared,

 

As for the printers - that's tough, is it possible to connect from one xp pc

to the other and then see if you can see the printers (this would rule out

xp\vista compatibility issues)

 

"SP_1" wrote:

> Hi

>

> I'm on a Vista Home Premium PC - connecting to an XP Pro PC through Remote

> Desktop Connection. While on the remote session, I open the My Computer (on

> the XP PC), and I can see all the drives on that PC plus all the drives on

> my Vista PC. I can copy files between these 2 PCs. The same thing with

> printers, while on the remote session, I open Printers And Faxes on the XP

> PC, and I can see all the printers on that PC plus the printers on my PC.

>

> Now, also from my Vista PC, I'm connecting to a different XP Pro PC. The

> problem is that I do not see all the drives of both PCs in the My Computer

> (eventhough I already checked the Drives box for connecting the Local

> Drives). The same problem goes for the printers. I do not see printers of

> both PCs in the Printers And Faxes (eventhough I already checked the

> Printers box for connecting the Local Printers).

>

> How can I fix this ?

> Thanks

> Steve

>

>

>