Sharing my comp with another keyboard,mouse and monitor?

[Lotus 0]

Is there a device out that will allow 2 people to use the same system, using 2 mice, 2 keyboards and two monitors?

[LongDistancePaddler 0]

Of course there are product like GoToMyPC and PCAnyhwere that allow you to access one PC from another one. PCAnywhere has been around for years. I ran this using Windows for WorkGroups. XP apparently has some of this capability built in, but I don't know how this runs.

 

I don't think that this is what you want.

 

I don't think that a monitor, mouse & keyboard are going to be enough to establish as second user. I think that what you need is referred to as a thin client, which is essentially a PC with no hard drive. You boot from the floppy and then connect to the other PC.

 

The short answer is that I have not heard of drivers/dlls that do what you want and I suspect that they don't exist.

[clutch 1]

I saw something like this a few years ago, but I haven't heard nor seen it again. It basically acted like a dumb terminal that you could add on to your PC. I think with the incredible drop in PC prices, it just couldn't compete though.

[LongDistancePaddler 0]

Yes I'd forgotten about that. With hard disk now much less than a cent for a megabyte why would you bother with a thin client?

 

It looks like gotomypc or pcanywhere could be closest to an answer that you are going to get.

 

Or you get get a blade server and then connect both PC's to it. I assume that you want to share data and software between two users. This may be the way to go.

 

If I knew more about what you have and what you want to do I may be able to come up with a better answer.

[adamvjackson 0]

If you're looking for a remote access software solution, I recommend VNC.

[Tomay 0]

Check out http://www.aplycon.com/Home.asp

[akiss 0]

applica u2 is one.

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