RDS - Remote Desktop Sharing

[richard.binning]

Anyone providing Remote Desktop Sharing to employees or select users to enable them to drive their PC's at work from their home PC?

[jpaulsen]

My company does not allow such access to the employees. We do have VPN access but it is limited to corporate employees (4), upper management, IT and myself.

[Coolmo]

The big wigs and other "special" people in my office were simply supplied very expensive laptops to work at home with while I'm banging two rocks together over here. Hey when does AutoCAD R10 come out?

[arcadia_x27]

Since autodesk's liscence allows the software to be installed at home and at work providing theyre not used at the same time, my company allows the software to be installed on staff's home pc's if they so desire.

[techaliasgar344767]

You can try using various remote desktop services such as logmeinrescue, gosupportnow, GoToMyPC etc. in order to have remote desktop sharing between home and office computers.

[Richard McDonald]

Using any programme to work in either direction is a dismissable offence at our company.

It is the first company I've come across that understands the subscription package and supplies the codes to all new starters.
Memory sticks are available to anybody that needs one for taking work home.

Logmein and its bretheren arent really suitable for remote working. They are IT tools and don't (didn't 3 years ago when I last used them) work "real time". They refresh a portion of the screen as an image a bit like oversized multicoloured pixels.

[rkmcswain]

Anyone providing Remote Desktop Sharing to employees or select users to enable them to drive their PC's at work from their home PC?

Yes.
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[Richard McDonald]

Yes.
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I'll ask.
What system do you use?
Is it workable with CAD?
any problems/work arounds?

many thanks

[rkmcswain]

I'll ask.
What system do you use?
Is it workable with CAD?
any problems/work arounds?

many thanks

Users connect to LAN via VPN, then use Windows Remote Desktop to hit their work desktop machine and work in Civil 3D.
Problems include:
(a) the user doesn't know his/her hostname
(b) the user turned his/her machine off
(c) the user can't figure out the VPN software on his/her home machine and/or can't figure out RD.

But for the most part, there is a small group of users who do this regularly and have the system down pretty good.
It's not blazing fast, but it's workable. And since it's just transmitting the screen image and input devices, it doesn't really matter if you are working in Civil 3D, or notepad - the computing is being done on the remote machine.

[dkoch]

Anyone providing Remote Desktop Sharing to employees or select users to enable them to drive their PC's at work from their home PC?

We allow people with company laptops to access the network via VPN, but of course, they have their PC with them. Others can access the network using VMware View Portal, and connect to a "remote desktop" on a server. It does not give access to the user's PC, but does allow them to run ACA or Revit on the server and access network-based files.