Remote assistance

[jj]

Here is my problem, that I know some helpful sole on here will have the answer for.

I have a winxp pro machine connected to machine running win98se.

I have th win98se coonected permantley to my broadband connection.

As I dont need to use the win98se machine, it is just the box, no keybaord , mouse or monitor attached.

Fow whatever reason every now and then, i loose my connection and have to f around plugging a monitor, keybaord and mouse into it to sort it out.

I dont want the expense of buting a switcher box for this purpose.

So the crux of my question, does anyone know of any free/trial software so that I can take over the win98 box from my xp machine, so i can see the screen move the mouse etc.


cheers for your help

[jj]

I had an old compaq deskpro pentium 2 hanging around, thought i would save money and use that, got zonealarm running on my xp machine then.

[jj]

i tried this, but retail versions of windows are funny about compaq machines for some reason.

I can install win98 and before, but not xp, 2000, 2003 server or windows 2000 server on it, it comes up with error codes at the beggining of install

[jj]

becuase the firewall in windows xp aint as good as zonelaram

[jj]

I found this to be the case with an old compaq 484 laptop  I used to have till somebody stole it( there was a partion on the HD to run the bios setup prog.  It was all like gui driven, was pretty cool.


I formated the drive and lost this, had to use a prog as said on this thread to put it back

however the despro I have got, has no such partion, and there is nothing in the bios that should be upsetting win2kpro, I have looked throughly.

I find it strange, cause when I had the machine it had nt4 workstation on it, so i tohught great, ill wipe this and just stick win2k on it, no dice.

Btw thanks for the vnc info, works a treat

[jj]

cheers for your help guys.

I havn`t started a thread that has had more than two answers since the good old days, when me, whabang and  redrumloa used to have epic political discussuions.