thoon

Hi Folks

I have a wired home network with three machines. One runs XPpro SP2, the second (not relevant to my question) runs XP home and the third runs Win98se. The XPpro machine will be replaced soon with a Vista SP1 machine.

The Win98 machine has FAT32 hardrive management, the others NFTS. I have a number of games, utilities, old programs, etc on the Win98 machine which will not run on XP pro machine for various reasons.

The network seems to work well, but I have really used only the file transfer function.

I want to be able to call up the win98 desktop on the XPpro machine (later the Vista machine) and use the programs and games there, instead of having to move to another computer -- in fact I want to put the Win98 machine in a closet, with a network connection, and just turn it on when needed.

I managed to get the remote desktop feature to work, but ironically, while I can get the XP desktop on the Win98 machine, it won't work the other way. The message is something like "no terminal server on [the win98 machine]"

What can I do? Is there a program that might work as a terminal server on the win98 machine?

Other things I have thought of are to install XPpro on the Win98 machine -- expensive and probably will disable the software I want to use.

Get some kind of switch to get both machines on the same monitor, keyboard and mouse? Might work (does anybody know?) but clumsy with much hardware and wiring clutter.

I'm not worried about security since my network is well protected.

Anybody have any suggestions? Any help appreciated.

thanks

thoon