Les
Fri May 09 15:15:23 PDT 2008
Windows Mobile has the RDP client. Smartphones don't.
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Les Connor [SBS MVP]
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"Gregg Hill" <greggmhill at please do not spam me at yahoo dot com> wrote in
message news:%23zy22ChsIHA.4376@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> The statement that "...your users may write those details on an envelope
> they throw in the bin, to be picked up by anyone" is the same for network
> passwords, so it is moot. Even if I gave you my LMI login name and
> password, it would do you no good, since I have not told you my computer
> passwords for the systems listed in LMI. You could not access any system
> for which you do not know the password.
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> LogMeIn offers more security than RWW.
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> 1) You as the administrator set up a LogMeIn (LMI) account. You do so with
> any email address you choose and a password totally unrelated to your
> network password. You install LMI on the computers you choose.
> 2) You add secondary users as needed or desired, then send them an
> invitation to open their own LMI account using their personal email
> account (not corporate account) with a password not the same as their
> network password. You could even set up those accounts yourself...all you
> need is their personal email address.
> 3) Blank passwords are not allowed in LMI accounts, and LMI requires that
> the computer to which one connects have a password. If the computer's
> password is blank, LMI still requires an authentication code to access
> remote control.
> 4) When one wants to connect to a computer using LMI, that person logs
> into his/her LMI account and sees ONLY the computers to which you have
> given access. They select the computer, then log in using the same
> credentials they would if they were sitting at the computer. It has now
> taken two different login names and two different login passwords to get
> into the computer, and the whole transaction is 256-bit encrypted.
> 5) If you desire to block a user's access, you merely disable the
> secondary user.
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> LMI Free offers remote control, and one can choose to blank the remote
> screen and disable the remote mouse and keyboard if desired. If remote
> printing or file transfer is needed, then you start running into
> additional costs for LMI Pro or LMI IT Reach, which both allow file
> transfer and remote printing with a universal printer driver.
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> Gregg Hill
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> "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@your.nellie> wrote in message
> news:Oa9ayzZsIHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> No, RRW offers Administrator controlled access to PC's. If you allow
>> LogMeIn(or alternatives) your users may write those details on an
>> envelope they throw in the bin, to be picked up by anyone. They may use a
>> simple password (or none) for this alternate connection method, rather
>> than the system enforced password strength.
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>> Actually, RWW is a set of web pages and my WM device handles those web
>> pages fine. It is only the 'Connect to...' functions that do not work.
>> (Something I consider a minor part of RWW).
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>> "Jelly26" <Jelly26@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:4DBD8A8A-9696-427E-BA2F-F9815701BCA6@microsoft.com...
>>> Logme lets others to see your screen, while RWW keeps the things
>>> ssseecret...
>>> you know what I mean :)
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>>> "William" wrote:
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>>>> On 8 May, 22:13, MijakiDK <Mijak...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>> > Thanks, but that is not RWW
>>>>
>>>> True. But what can RWW do that LogMeIn cannot do?
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>>>> WH
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