Play "Remote Desktop" in Windows Vista

Remote Desktop provides great convenience for users to work remotely: when users go to work, they want to copy some data from the computer at home to the company's computer, or the user gets off work. If you want to use your company's computer to do some work, you can access the remote computer locally through the network, and log in to the operating system after legal Windows authentication. Of course, this requires the remote computer to be turned on and connected to the network.

In addition, the connection to "Remote Desktop" also requires some settings on the remote computer, because Windows does not allow other computers to connect to the local computer through "Remote Desktop". Open ”Control Panel”→”Systems & Maintenance”→”System”→”Remote Settings” and then select ”select in Remote Desktop" Desktop computer connection (less secure), this allows Windows Vista's previous version of Windows to connect to Windows Vista computers via Remote Desktop. Windows Vista's "Remote Desktop" supports connection via Network Level Authentication (NLA). If the user determines that all remote computer systems connected to the local are Windows Vista, then it is recommended to select "allow only network level identity The Verify Remote Desktop Computer Connection (More Secure) option is more secure.

1 allows & rdquo; remote desktop & rdquo; connection

setting allows & rdquo; remote desktop & rdquo; the default user to connect remote users only Administrators Administrators group to log on locally case computer. If you want to use a different user group for remote login, you can click the ”Select User” button and click ”Add” to set it up.

Note: What is network level authentication? Network-level authentication (NLA) is a new authentication method that completes user authentication and a login screen before you establish all remote desktop connections. This is the most secure authentication method to help protect remote computers from hackers or malware. The advantages of NLA are:

1. Initially requires fewer remote computer resources. Before authenticating a user, the remote computer uses limited resources instead of launching all remote desktop connections as in the previous version.

2. You can help provide greater security by reducing denial of service attacks (trying to restrict or block access to the Internet).

3. Use remote computer authentication to help prevent users from connecting to remote computers that are set up for malicious purposes.

After making the above settings in Windows Vista, the firewall will automatically enable the relevant settings to allow "Remote Desktop" to access. And after setting the above settings in Windows XP, you need to set it in the firewall by: opening ” control panel ”→”Windows firewall”→”exception”, then ”exception” In the options page, check the "File and Printer Sharing" option, and finally click the "OK" button to complete the firewall settings. If you are using a third-party firewall on your computer, you will need to manually add a rule to open the TCP port 3389 of the local computer.

If the remote computer is already set up, you can connect using ”Remote Desktop”. Click ”start”→”all programs”→”attachments”→”remote desktop connections” then enter the computer name or IP of the remote computer in the "computer" input box And click the ”Connect” button.

2 Remote Desktop Connection

If the remote computer is Windows Vista prior version of the system (such as Windows XP), or if the computer is configured to support only RDP security layer, then the connection The warning window shown in Figure 3 will be prompted. If you determine that this is true, you can click & rdquo; Yes & rdquo; confirm to continue the connection.

3 remote desktop alert window

Next displays the login window, enter the appropriate user name and password to log in. As shown in Figure 4, in the "Remote Desktop Connection" window, the user can manipulate the remote computer as if it were local.

4 through FIG. & rdquo; remote desktop & rdquo; remote operation

In addition to using the default settings & rdquo; remote desktop & rdquo; connection, we can also be configured according to the actual needs and . Click the "options" button on the "Remote Desktop Connection" interface, and the option configuration interface shown in Figure 5 will be displayed. In the "General" tab, you can save the connection to your fixed remote computer as a shortcut for quick connection in the future. In the ”Display” tab, you can set the resolution, color quality and other parameters of the remote desktop display. If the network speed between the local computer and the remote computer is slow, you can speed up the display by reducing the resolution and color quality. In addition, in the "experience" tab (this is a Chinese version of a translation of a bug, in fact should be translated into "experience") can be further optimized for network speed. The new version of "Remote Desktop" can also be set in the "Advanced" tab.

Figure 5 & ldquo; remote desktop & rdquo; option

Tip: Change & rdquo; remote desktop & rdquo; default listen port: default & rdquo; remote desktop & rdquo; listening port It is 3389, but this will lead to a lot of insecure factors, and it is easy to be detected and attacked by the network. At this point we can solve this problem by modifying the default listening port, the specific method is:

1. Click the "start” menu, enter ”regedit” and press Enter to open the ” registry Editor”.

2. Locate  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\TerminalServer\\WinStations\\RDP-Tcp”

3. Find the DOWRD value named ”PortNumber” in the right window Double-click the value and select ”decimal” to change the value to the desired port, for example 8787.

4. Click & rdquo; OK & rdquo; Exit, then restart the system.

When using the "Remote Desktop" connection, you need to add the port number after the computer name or IP, for example, " windowsxp:8787″ or" 192.168.1.5:8787″.