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11-Apr-2007, 02:55 PM #1
[SOLVED]Looking for an alternative to RDP & VNC
Hi guys,

Thanks for taking 5 minutes of your time to read this post.

I presently have two computer at home, one desktop which I use all the time, and one HTPC, which is always logged on the MCE account to play movies and music.

What I wanted to do, is to make some task on my HTPC in background, I did find a patch to make concurrent session of Remote Desktop Protocol running, and it worked great, but..

The thing is, I'm trying to make some video editing in background in the alternate session, and since Remote Desktop emulate an audio device and bring the sound to the PC i'm taking control from, I cannot use any of my software, since they do not detect the audio drivers.

So I then tried UltraVNC, RealVNC and TightVNC, all of these will not mess with the audio driver, so I'll be able to start my application and make my video editing, but...

VNC will only login into the actual logged in user, and won't open a session, like RDP does, so each time I connect using VNC, it goes into the MCE account.

This is bad, since the idea is to be able to watch movies without noticing that some background task are being processed. I've got a dual core cpu and a lot of ram only for that. Otherwise I would have taken a single core cpu with 512mb of ram, that would have been more than enough to run MCE.

So that's about it, all I am looking for, is a software that will allow me to take control remotely of my HTPC, by opening a new session, and not taking control of the one already opened.
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