cookiedude
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Hi all
As the title suggests I'm having a little trouble getting remote desktop connection working on our windows 7 PCs connected to our work server (running Windows Server Standard 2008 R2). We have a few members of staff opting to work from home during the Olympics (we're based in London) and we have enabled VPN connection so everyone can access files, but I was also hoping to take advantage of remote desktop so that they can still use the Workstations in the office should they need to (we're a design agency, so do a lot of 3D visualisation, and the PCs in the office are quite a bit more powerful than our personal machines). I have followed all of the steps specified in the various tutorials I have found via google (namely activating remote access in windows 7), but no matter what we do, we simply cannot get remote desktop to connect.
Can anybody offer any advice as to where we might be going wrong? Does remote desktop only work when accessing individual machines rather than those connected to a server? Would we be better trying 3rd party RDC software (assuming there are other free options out there)?
Thanks in advance
As the title suggests I'm having a little trouble getting remote desktop connection working on our windows 7 PCs connected to our work server (running Windows Server Standard 2008 R2). We have a few members of staff opting to work from home during the Olympics (we're based in London) and we have enabled VPN connection so everyone can access files, but I was also hoping to take advantage of remote desktop so that they can still use the Workstations in the office should they need to (we're a design agency, so do a lot of 3D visualisation, and the PCs in the office are quite a bit more powerful than our personal machines). I have followed all of the steps specified in the various tutorials I have found via google (namely activating remote access in windows 7), but no matter what we do, we simply cannot get remote desktop to connect.
Can anybody offer any advice as to where we might be going wrong? Does remote desktop only work when accessing individual machines rather than those connected to a server? Would we be better trying 3rd party RDC software (assuming there are other free options out there)?
Thanks in advance