Remote Assistance Auto Accept

Hi All,

We have a vista machine, plugged into a plasm screen in our reception area.

I'm looking for a good way for someone to be able to remote control it, and
change what is displayed on the screen.

Currently we are using Ultra VNC, but are having stability problems. Ultra
VNC sometimes crashes either the PC with the plasma connected or the PC
running the VNC viewer.

The remote assistance function built into Vista would be prefect if the PC
would Auto Accept the request - This was possible in XP, but I have been
unable to get it working in Vista.

Does anyone have any ideas on best way to go about it?

Hi Bob,

You cannot set an auto-accept of Remote Assistance in Vista, nor can you in
XP. What you can do in either (and were likely doing with XP) is Remote
Desktop using a logon for the host pc. For Vista, you need Business or
Ultimate to be the host, in XP you need Professional. Niether of the Home
versions support being the host, only an access client.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Bob" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi All,
>
> We have a vista machine, plugged into a plasm screen in our reception
> area.
>
> I'm looking for a good way for someone to be able to remote control it,
> and change what is displayed on the screen.
>
> Currently we are using Ultra VNC, but are having stability problems. Ultra
> VNC sometimes crashes either the PC with the plasma connected or the PC
> running the VNC viewer.
>
> The remote assistance function built into Vista would be prefect if the PC
> would Auto Accept the request - This was possible in XP, but I have been
> unable to get it working in Vista.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on best way to go about it?
>