Remote Desktop in a Domain

Can I connect to a client machine running XP Pro via Remote Desktop when the client is a member and is currently logged in the domain? Will the domain controller prevent this? If so, what if I have a second NIC on this host PC that is not part of the subnet of the domain?

Incidenntally I am beginning to get really interested in a Windows machine that has more than one NIC. What interesting things have you folks done to a Windows machine that has two or three NICs?

 

Yes you can connect to a computer using Remote Desktop when part of a domain. We do it all the time at work. It saves a lot of steps. I'm sure you can set a policy that wouldn't allow you to use Remote Desktop, but I haven't done it. In order to be able to connect to the remote computer you must first enable the Remote Desktop feature, and add the users that you want to be able to connect to that pc remotely.

As far as using two or more NICs in a pc, the only place we have used that config is on some of our servers. We are able to team all of the NICs in the OS so that they act as one NIC. This gives you higher bandwidth to and from the server provided your equipment at the other end allows you to do this.

 

How is this done really? I have a customer whose office is a graphics firm so they share large graphics files all the time. Their current 10/100 network is saturated with data streams so that at times even the Internet is slow. I have been thinking about upgrading the whole network to gigabit, but decided if by simply adding a second or third NIC and combine the multiple data streams, I can achive the same effect. Besides only a few computers in this firm do enough heavy file transfer to warrant gigabit networking, so upgrading the entire network seem redundant. So I just want to use this type of aggregate data streams on just these few computers. All running XP Pro and the server is simple a file server. But the files it servers are huge in the order of 50MB each average. I have read about this, but have not seen a website that goes into details about the nuts and bolts of setting this up.

 

Well like I said it depends on you hardware. I'm not really sure if XP has the capability to team NICs on its own or not. Our servers are all Compaq/HP and all or our switches are Cisco (our core being a 6509). HP offers teaming drivers for their NICs and that is what allows us to team multiple NICs together. Like you I haven't seen any thing that walks you through doing this. Your best bet would probably be to contact the manufacturer and see if they offer drivers that would do this.

Eric

 

Teaming NICs article

http://www.networkcomputing.com/shared/printArticle.jhtml?article=/1215/1215f5full.html&pub=nwc

Here is an older article I found on teaming NIC.