Choose the Right Remote Option

May 1996 / Special Report / Reach Beyond WIN 95 / Choose the Right Remote Option

Remote access typically involves dialing into a connection point (e.g., an NT system running Remote Access Services); from that point you'll have the same capabilities as you would if your computer were directly connected to the LAN. You can, for example, map network drives and print to network printers. In remote-access situations, applications reside on the remote computer and execute there. This is different fro m what's sometimes called a remote node, where the application resides on the host computer (the one you're dialing into) but executes on the remote computer, transferring the executable over the phone line.
Remote control enables you to take control of a remote computer's screen, keyboard, and mouse. You can launch applications on a remote computer and use its storage devices and peripherals as if you were sitting in front of that computer. Your keystrokes or mouse movements appear both on the screens of the host PC and your remote PC (unless you choose to blank the remote screen for security purposes).

Remote Access vs. Remote Control
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