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Found some great blog posts on this today so I thought I would share.

Most Windows XP users know that you can set up your machine to be a terminal server for yourself should you need to access that computer from another one. However, the service right out of the box has some limits. It only allows a computer running XP Pro to act as a server (although anyone can connect with any OS), and it only allows one computer to be connected at a time.

Thanks to the wonderous coolness that is digg.com, I discovered that patches exist to allow Remote Desktops in Xp Home, and extend its functionality to include allowing multiple machines to remote into a single other machine. So if you have a powerhouse computer sitting in the closet, now three people can use it simultaneously for something like e-mail or web access.

This link is to the “dugg” article. Check the comments, there’s a lot more on the subject and some better patches out there.