OT:Access same desktop from 3 PCs

Does anyone know if it?s possible to login to your desktop pc from multiple locations but not via a remote access type setup?

Kinda like cloning the whole login on one pc(via the cloud somehow) so that I can just login to it as if it?s the same pc but on a different o ne.

Ta Steve

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Mr Sandman
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VNC and clones?

Reply to
Chris Green

What do you mean by cloning? Do you mean each PC has the same apps, data, d rive mappings etc. Or do you mean that you log in to one PC then move to an other and you see what the same as the first PC when you left it? If you ca n give some example scenarios would help

Reply to
leenowell

Not exactly sure what you want here. If you are logging into your physical PC from multiple remote places, then that by definition is remote access...

Perhaps you have in mind creating a virtual PC from an image of a real one, then placing that in the cloud, and accessing the same virtual PC from multiple locations? If so, then yup that should be doable.

The other (similar) option would be what MS used to call terminal server (but now confusingly call Remote Desktop Server - not to be confused with a remote desktop connection to a physical PC). That is Using a sandboxed environment running with your user profile but running on a server rather than a workstation.

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John Rumm

I was actually thinking of roaming profiles and a home directory on a server, which is how I do it here.

Reply to
Bob Eager

Yup that's also possible - I guess it depends on how remote the remote PCs are!

Having to join remote PCs to a domain across the internet (say via a VPN) might not be particularly quick, especially if the profile is of any size.

(normally one could get round that with an additional local DC joined to the domain, but that's probably getting over complicated!)

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John Rumm

It depends what you expect. And how fast the network links are.

The simplets conceptually and th worts perfornmace is of course to have a remote desktop via a VpN. You are then separating the main PC from its client control at the screen/keyboard/mouse/sound level.

Thast a LOT of network traffic.

If you get smrter you may be able to towards the other extreme simply have a full blown PC whose drives are network mapped to the original PCs.

If you duplicate all the programs, tahts quite a snappy generic solution.

Best of all is a set of software that operates in client server mode, like web browsers do.

This minimses network traffic completely, but it does require very specialised setups.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

So why do you not want to do it via a remote desktop etc? Whatever system you use if you want to use the apps on the one machine these are the only ways to do it. You seem to be asking for a set of computers all with the same apps all operating at the same time, which seems a little wistful. Microsoft, Google and others are going down the road toward synchronising multi platform machines with the same apps and data via the cloud, though this is not instant. Think about it, if you wanted to actually do this real time the data exchanged would be massive. Brian

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Brian Gaff

Yes, I'm trying to understand "possible to login to your desktop pc from multiple locations" in conjunction with "but not via a remote access type setup". I you don't want TeamViewer remote access, then what *do* you want?

You want PC 2 to behave as if it were PC 1, in terms of user settings, installed applications and their customised settings, maybe access to any documents, pictures that are on PC 1.

Can this be done? I can't think of a way. In this situation, I use TeamViewer and remotely access PC 1, with all its customised settings, using PC 2 as a "terminal" to it. But this isn't what you want.

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NY

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