a way to remote desktop with your smartphone! (fun to play around with)

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a way to remote desktop with your smartphone! (fun to play around with), and how to re-map short keys

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mikeeey

May 13 2007, 08:11

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well here's a way to remote desktop with your smartphone for those of you that are interested in that type of thing.
ive uploaded the 2 programs you need (sphelper and WM6 remote desktop client)

this program, WM6 remote desktop client, just alone makes me want a ppc more than before. waiting for the kaiser to come out soon!

so here's what you need to do:

1. install WM6_RDP (WM6 remote desktop client) to your phone, and put sphelper on your phone.

2. open up WM6 remote desktop client, and set your phone down cause the next step you will be doing stuff on the computer.

3. you will need your computer's IP adress, so go to command prompt and type in "ipconfig". you'll see many IP's but use the first one that just says "IP adress" (usually starts with 192). now enter the IP adress in WM6_RDP where it says "computer" but be careful not to mess up typing cuz backspace wont workfor some reason. probably cuz its a ppc program.

4. now you will need to create a new user account on your computer, along with a password (yes a password is needed). i just called my account "sda" cuz that's the phone i have.
Now you can probably guess that on WM6_RDP "User name" would be what you called your created account name, and password is of corse the password you made.

5. now the last step you will need to go to Start>control panel>System. go to the "remote" tab, and check the box that says "Allow Remote Assistance invitation to be sent from this computer", and check the box that says "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer"
Now click the button that says "Select Remote Users..." Click the "Add" button. Enter in the user account name you named your account, and click the "Check Names" button, then say "ok" "ok" and "ok".

6. Now on your phone say "connect" (dont worry about Domain, just leave it blank (as far as i know)
On the phone it should bring up a message talking about if you continue it will log off the current user(this will not actually log you out, it brings your computer to the blue log in screen), say ok using sphelper. if you werent able to click the ok button then you will need to click the left softkey (which should say control cuz you have sphelper as your active window) and click connect. now try clicking ok and it should work. now look at your computer and it will bring up a window telling you a user is trying to remote desktop with you, say ok.

now it should start connecting and you can play around with it.

I recomend you set a shortcut key to the task manager so you can exit this easily. read further down to find out how to do this.....

here's how to re-map a shortcut key to the task manager.

go to the windows folder on your device.

now this will be hard to explain, but il try.
what your going to do is find the taskmanager shortcut (its called Task_Manager on my phone). copy and paste the shortcut to a folder on your desktop. and find the shortcut key you'd like to re-map. the shortcut keys begin with "Short_(something)", (On my phone i used Short_AP1, which is the T-Zones button for me) and copy and paste that shortcut to that folder on your desktop.

now in the folder on your desktop, you just need to rename the task manager shortcut to the name of the "Short_" shortcut you chose. now just copy back the renamed file to your phone's windows folder.

if no one can understand this il just make a short video on how to do it, infact, i think i will make a video, it will be uploaded shortly.

This post has been edited by mikeeey: May 13 2007, 08:54

Attached File(s)

sphelper.zip ( 17.61K ) Number of downloads: 999

WM6_RDP_Finster.cab ( 740.07K ) Number of downloads: 1208

how_to_re_map_a_short_key_to_task_manager.zip ( 2.67MB ) Number of downloads: 576

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mikeeey

May 13 2007, 08:45

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and of corse xda-developers had already beat me to it lol:

http://www.modaco.com/content/smartphone-software-applications/253359/http-www-modaco-com-index-php-showtopic-253359/

however, it looks like i give more instructions on how to use it.

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dt_matthews

Jun 3 2007, 19:58

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QUOTE(mikeeey @ May 13 2007, 09:45)

hi mikeeey. when i run the cab on my spv e650 i get an install error stating i dont have 'sufficient system permissions'. any thoughts? :-)

mikeeey

Jun 3 2007, 20:03

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QUOTE(dt_matthews @ Jun 3 2007, 11:58)

hi mikeeey. when i run the cab on my spv e650 i get an install error stating i dont have 'sufficient system permissions'. any thoughts? :-)

no i dont know what it says that.. so ive just extracted the cab and ziped the files for you here:

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wm6_RDP_Finster.zip ( 302.44K ) Number of downloads: 229

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dt_matthews

Jun 3 2007, 20:47

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QUOTE(mikeeey @ Jun 3 2007, 21:03)

no i dont know what it says that.. so ive just extracted the cab and ziped the files for you here:

thanks mikeeey, thats better

tonytec

Jun 11 2007, 23:53

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QUOTE(dt_matthews @ Jun 3 2007, 22:47)

thanks mikeeey, thats better

Hi All I've a HTC s710 I can connect to my office PC trough Finster but I can not use sphelper to use the pointer. Pls can you help me? SPhelper starts but does not work on my smartphone it locks sometimes and is impossible to control.

jockyw2001

Jun 13 2007, 12:30

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QUOTE(tonytec @ Jun 11 2007, 23:53)

use fakecursor, works fine for me

tonytec

Jun 16 2007, 22:18

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QUOTE(jockyw2001 @ Jun 13 2007, 14:30)

use fakecursor, works fine for me

Thank you I tried fake cursor but it is not very compatible with my devive, for example I can not switch off it. Anyone knows if I can use bluemouse program on my HTC S710?

mikeeey

Jun 17 2007, 03:53

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QUOTE(tonytec @ Jun 16 2007, 14:18)

Thank you I tried fake cursor but it is not very compatible with my devive, for example I can not switch off it. Anyone knows if I can use bluemouse program on my HTC S710?

yea i know theres no way to switch it off, which kinda sucks. if u do turn it off it just sends u to the homescreen. u say sphelper locks? the only time it ever locked for me is when i click the 9 button, it makes the softkeys stop working lol. then i have to take hte battery out of my phone cuz it wont turn off either.

This post has been edited by mikeeey: Jun 17 2007, 03:55

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Gwtx2

Jun 29 2007, 02:22

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I remote desktoped without adding a new account and without installing sphelper. I'm running Dutty's WM6 ROM on a HTC 8525. The PC is Vista 64bit. The only thing I had to do was allow the remote access in the Control Panel stuff. Then I started Remote Desktop on the phone (comes with WM6), added my IP address and an exisitng PC account ID/PW. The PC went back to the login screen with a message below my ID saying that I was logged in remotely.

On the phone, I could see my PC's desktop (as if I were logged onto the PC). I could start up Media Player and play a song, but no sound from the PC or phone (of course).
Also surfed the web (while viewing Firefox on the phone).

Not sure on the purpose of the other account and sphelper.

mikeeey

Jun 29 2007, 04:07

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QUOTE(Gwtx2 @ Jun 28 2007, 18:22)

wel ur device says 8525, so im assuming thats the phone your using? in that case you wouldnt need sphelper, and no u dont need to create another acount if u already have a password on yours, but it will mess up the arangement of your icons on your desktop if you do use your account. thats why i was saying create a seperate one where its ok if everything gets changed around to fit the display of your phone

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juggler314

Jul 11 2007, 14:45

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QUOTE(mikeeey @ Jun 29 2007, 00:07)

I'm trying to get everything all working on my Dash. I've got the RDP client working mostly ok (for some reason the keyboard doesn't quite work as it wont stop typing numbers instead of letters where they overlap - but I just made an account/password that only used keys not in that section of the keyboard to get around that).

I've installed sphelper - which works although the app is godawful and gets stuck and hung up all the time.

The problem I have is that it doesn't actually seem to *do* anything once logged in. I can move the mouse pointer around, which is nice that it lets me use that corner mini window to scroll around the larger desktop - but I can't actually click anything, the action button, 1 and 2 seem to do nothing at all. can't launch a thing.

Anyone have any thoughts?

G-Stress

Oct 15 2007, 03:04

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Hey guys, new to the forums and this is the first forum I've found that actually mentioned RDP support for wm6. I am having a bit of a problem though how exactly do I go about installing/using rdp in wm6? When I extracted the files I don't see any file that looks executable and I transferred the extracted directory to my phone and it's like it doesn't suppor the file types. I have a T-Mobile Dash. Thanks for any help/advice in advance.

Paul (MVP)

Oct 16 2007, 21:33

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Does logmein work on Smartphone?

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G-Stress

Oct 17 2007, 01:47

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Ok I did get RDP installed on my phone, but not sure where exactly to put sphelper? When I connect to my machine it displays the desktop but it seems as if I should be able to scoll in order to see it all, but I can't scroll and there is no mouse.

mikeeey

Oct 17 2007, 03:49

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QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Oct 16 2007, 13:33)

Does logmein work on Smartphone?

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tried a long time ago..i got some message, forgot what it said, something about it telling me my browser wasnt compatible or I needed a PPC? all i remember is it didnt work because it was a smartphone

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mikeeey

Oct 17 2007, 03:52

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QUOTE(G-Stress @ Oct 14 2007, 19:04)

well wait a minute...you shouldnt have to extract anything. you just copy the .cab file to your device and install it from there. you arent trying to extract the .cab are you?

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G-Stress

Oct 17 2007, 06:07

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