![]() Now it’s System and Security, System, Remote Settings (Left menu), Allow Desktop (Section), Allow connections. For testing I would remove the tick in the box below see screenshot to the right.Īssuming you are at the Desktop: Call for the ‘Charms’, Search, Control Panel. Once the control panel is open head for: More Settings, System and Security, Remote Settings, Remote Desktop and click the radio button next to ‘Allow remote connections to this computer’. Here is where you think ahead, and configure your own Windows 8 machine, which I call the host in this scenario:Īssuming you are seeing the Metro UI: click on Control Panel, or if you cannot find it type ‘c o n t r o l’ and select the icon. Working with a Windows 8 remote desktop is almost indistinguishable from being there at the physical host machine. Once you configure the logon credentials make the connection a LAN, or even over the internet via TCP port 3389. To save that long trek back to your machine, launch Remote Desktop from a colleague’s machine, and then connect to your Windows 8 computer back in the other office. ![]() Realize that one day you are going to leave your office with the Windows 8 machine running, and then visit a colleague in another part of the building the problem comes when you need a file which is on your Windows 8 computer back in the first office. The key to configuring the host is thinking ahead.
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