Keno Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Okay, people. I am attempting to take lazyness to the next level and I will require the assistance of all you brave souls.This is the situation.I have a PC Desktop (XP Pro) that runs all the games and stuff I want.I have a laptop (Vista Home) that is a worthless piece of shit.Now what I would like to be able to do is lay in my bed with my laptop and play SL or whatever but this is not possible because the laptop sucks.But then I had an idea, what if I could link my laptop to my desktop? The laptop would essentially act as a dumb terminal to my desktop (I would see my desktop PC through the laptop screen and could use the laptop mousepad/key board). Ok so, any ideas? I tried google but I only found the crap where you connect through the internet and stuff which would obviously be slower than a direct connection since the laptop and desktop would be a fucking metre apart.My only other option is to drag my screen and keyboard shit over to my bed.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anlysia Gregoire Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 You want to use Remote Desktop, Keno. It's built in with XP and Vista. I'm sure you can figure it out yourself, but if you can't, just leave a line here and I can write up a quick bit on it. Or Google it.It's a little bit laggy, but, if you don't want to like...go into combat, it should be fine for just running around base or whatnot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keno Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 I tried google but I only found the crap where you connect through the internet Remote desktop uses interwebs .I'm meaning if I can do it through some sort of cabe, ethernet cable or someshit <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anlysia Gregoire Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Keno, if you have your two computers on the same LAN -- AKA through the same router or whatnot -- you can just Remote Desktop to the IP of the other computer on your LAN.I have a fileserver underneath my TV, about six feet from where I'm sitting, and I can Remote Desktop to it by putting, like, "192.168.1.130" which is the local-LAN IP of it. It doesn't go any further than my router, and then to the other computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygna Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Remote desktop uses interwebs .I'm meaning if I can do it through some sort of cabe, ethernet cable or someshit <_<Touch your nose, spin round three times.OH WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT. I forgot to enable BBCode for this forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keno Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 Keno, if you have your two computers on the same LAN -- AKA through the same router or whatnot -- you can just Remote Desktop to the IP of the other computer on your LAN.I have a fileserver underneath my TV, about six feet from where I'm sitting, and I can Remote Desktop to it by putting, like, "192.168.1.130" which is the local-LAN IP of it. It doesn't go any further than my router, and then to the other computer.I dided eit, Remote desktop only runs basic graphics drivers through it and you cant open anything usefull besides firefox and notepad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niiya Narayan Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 it's not possible to play games using a dumb terminal like that as the graphics element would still need to run through your laptop before it as far as i know :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keno Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 TECHNOLOGY HAS FAILED ME FOR THE LAST TIME....I will be leaving for tibet with my trusty cup and spoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steff Flintoff Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 TECHNOLOGY HAS FAILED ME FOR THE LAST TIME....I will be leaving for tibet with my trusty cup and spoon.terminal services keno, there's your answer :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keno Posted January 13, 2009 Author Share Posted January 13, 2009 Wut wut? :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
