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PC anywhere with win98 and XP
I have an ADSL router\modem connecting a Win98 Desktop to a WinXP laptop. Both share my ADSL internet connection.
My intention is to monitor the 98 machine from the XP machine using PCanywhere 11. This is so that I can monitor the activity of my kids remotely when on the internet.
I have disabled Zone alarm, and disconnected the ADSL line temporarily while I have no firewall.
The two machines are in the same workgroup, with shared folders. I can see the resources on the other machine from both ends.
When I run PCanywhere on the XP machine, from the quick deploy and connect icon, I can see the 98 machine in the list. I double click the icon in pcanywhere to connect to it. It prompts with a box domain\username and password.
What do I fill in here? I've tried all combinations of machine names and usernames with passwords, and every time is says no network available, yet it lists the machine!
I even set up a user account on both machines with the same user password combination.
Just seems stupid that I can list the machine in PCA, share resources with it in Network Neighbourhood, but not establish a connection in PCA.
Am I overlooking something fundamental?
Thanks in advance.
My intention is to monitor the 98 machine from the XP machine using PCanywhere 11. This is so that I can monitor the activity of my kids remotely when on the internet.
I have disabled Zone alarm, and disconnected the ADSL line temporarily while I have no firewall.
The two machines are in the same workgroup, with shared folders. I can see the resources on the other machine from both ends.
When I run PCanywhere on the XP machine, from the quick deploy and connect icon, I can see the 98 machine in the list. I double click the icon in pcanywhere to connect to it. It prompts with a box domain\username and password.
What do I fill in here? I've tried all combinations of machine names and usernames with passwords, and every time is says no network available, yet it lists the machine!
I even set up a user account on both machines with the same user password combination.
Just seems stupid that I can list the machine in PCA, share resources with it in Network Neighbourhood, but not establish a connection in PCA.
Am I overlooking something fundamental?
Thanks in advance.
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I'll have to try it when I get back to my jome PC.
The win98 pc is set up with usernames and password for user profiles, I take it this is different?
The win98 pc is set up with usernames and password for user profiles, I take it this is different?
Yup, essentially PCA can take security from a variety of sources the easiest to setup is a PCA user which you manually set. Bear in mind that on Win98 your kids will be able to cancel the pcanywhere host as (from memory) it will appear in the taskbar (list of running programmes at the bottom of the screen).
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I'll let you know if this works.
I read it somewhere that you can get PCA to run in stealth mode with a quick Registry tweak, do you know if this hides the tray icon?
Many thanks for the quick response.
I read it somewhere that you can get PCA to run in stealth mode with a quick Registry tweak, do you know if this hides the tray icon?
Many thanks for the quick response.
I haven't heard of the registry hack, certainly in NT4, 2000, XP you can run it as a service which is essentially invisible. The symantec website lists the following registry entry
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Value: ServiceStealthMode
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
Type: DWORD
Settings: 0 = Do not hide icon (Default)
1 = Hide icon
Versions: 7.5, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 10.5
Apply at: Host
Use this setting to hide the Host Waiting icon and Waiting dialog.
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However this only seems to apply to versions prior to 11 (what you use). I only use v10.5 but there may be an option in v11 to hide the icon from the configuration setup.
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Value: ServiceStealthMode
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
Type: DWORD
Settings: 0 = Do not hide icon (Default)
1 = Hide icon
Versions: 7.5, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 10.5
Apply at: Host
Use this setting to hide the Host Waiting icon and Waiting dialog.
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However this only seems to apply to versions prior to 11 (what you use). I only use v10.5 but there may be an option in v11 to hide the icon from the configuration setup.
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OK, got home, forget the remote install, decided to install PCA on the 98 machine directly, see if we can get the two PCA installs talking to each other.
Clicked setup, pops up an error 1723, missing dll file. It won't install on the 98 machine, doesn't say which dll is missing.
Tried the remote deploy of thin client, made sure a super user was set up. Can see workgroup, and 98 machine from PCA on XP machine. Still pops up messge 'No network available'
I'm stumped.
Clicked setup, pops up an error 1723, missing dll file. It won't install on the 98 machine, doesn't say which dll is missing.
Tried the remote deploy of thin client, made sure a super user was set up. Can see workgroup, and 98 machine from PCA on XP machine. Still pops up messge 'No network available'
I'm stumped.
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Sorry, I didn't make it clear about the win98 machine. I thought I could do a remote deploy with only the XP machine having PCA on it. The installation errors ocurred last night when I abandoned this idea, and decided just to install PCA on both machines.
Many thanks for the time and effort you have put into this solution for me.
Again, I'll have to wait until I get home to try it out.
Have a good holiday, I'll let you know how it goes.
WB
Many thanks for the time and effort you have put into this solution for me.
Again, I'll have to wait until I get home to try it out.
Have a good holiday, I'll let you know how it goes.
WB
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