I'm new to the whole concept of a Remote Desktop. I have a home computer with Windows XP Media Center Edition. What is the best iPad app for me to remote into my home computer?
Does Splashtop work with Media Center Edition of XP?

Thanks!

Originally Posted by SLH iPad

I'm new to the whole concept of a Remote Desktop. I have a home computer with Windows XP Media Center Edition. What is the best iPad app for me to remote into my home computer?
Does Splashtop work with Media Center Edition of XP?

Thanks!

The worst part is if the app doesn't work or I don't know how to set up MY computer nor even if the app actually WORKS with Vista Home Ed you have paid for it so you're just out the money.

Hi, recently got an iPad for work... and got splashtop today to try and connect with work PC. I've installed the software on my xp-pro ver 5.1 laptop, and entered the IP splashtop told me to on the iPad splashtop set up... but it says it can't connect to my computer.

I have another guy here running logmein, same computer and operating system as me, and he has no issue.

Can someone point me to any obvious things to check?

I'm behind my company's firewall, connected to our wifi, and my computer is on the network.

Thanks

Why don't you contact their tech support? I can't post the link to their web site since I don't have enough posts yet, but go to splashtop dot com to find their tech support.

Be aware of a Splashtop limitation: if you need to log onto a PC that boots to the welcome screen, you're outta luck. If there's a user at the remote PC who can log in for you, it will work fine.

Unfortunately, Splashtop is unusable for remote unattended maintenance due to that limitation.

Originally Posted by speedlever

Be aware of a Splashtop limitation: if you need to log onto a PC that boots to the welcome screen, you're outta luck. If there's a user at the remote PC who can log in for you, it will work fine.

Unfortunately, Splashtop is unusable for remote unattended maintenance due to that limitation.

yeah thats why I set my PC and Mac side startup to auto.

This thread title is a bit misleading... best remote desktop is a moving target, depending on the user's needs.

I haven't tried some of the others like Jump, etc. But TeamViewer will survive a reboot and allows remote log-in. I know that logmein free/PC does as well... so I assume that logmein Ignition will also allow remote log-in.

Originally Posted by speedlever

Be aware of a Splashtop limitation: if you need to log onto a PC that boots to the welcome screen, you're outta luck. If there's a user at the remote PC who can log in for you, it will work fine.

Unfortunately, Splashtop is unusable for remote unattended maintenance due to that limitation.

I'm embarrassed to say I don't know what you mean by this... I never log out of my work computer, I just lock the workstation...

Like this (typically seen after a reboot, if not setup to skip the welcome screen):

Originally Posted by speedlever

Like this (typically seen after a reboot, if not setup to skip the welcome screen):

OK, thanks... ya, I never turn my computer off or log out... just lock the workstation so that shouldn't be an issue... but it just can't find the computer... set to the IP and port that the PC-side splashtop application says to have... our IT people say "we don't support that" so no help there I'm afraid... and the splash top tech support section seems very thin, lots of unanswered and unresolved questions there... guess I'm out $1.99