Remote desktop in Windows XP?

Question

Whenever I try to use remote desktop, it always starts a whole new session on the remote computer. How can I make it so that I can take over the current session (i.e. the local user AND the remote user can control the desktop)?

Answer 1

Remote desktop doesn't work that way.  You can use any of the VNC products to do what you want.

TightVNC, UltraVNC, etc. etc. etc.

It involves putting a server on the remote computer and a client on the viewer.  

Generally, you can have more than 1 client connecting at a time, where everyone (server and n clients) are all fighting over the mouse and keyboard!   You can control that.

VNC clients for PC's, Linux and Mac are compatible, making this a very strong universal solution.