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One of my staff is using a Old Windows NT 4.0 Workstation which is connected to the CNC machines in the pump shop. He needs to shift his office from the pump shop to our premises. He wants to access his NT 4.0 work station to have remote desktop connection. How to enable remote desktop on NT 4.0 workstation?....
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thanks a lot for your support. I have made the remote connection by using a software called VNC. The software installs on NT 4.0 machine as well. I appreciate your patience to help me. thank you
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NT4 is not able to use Remote desktop, this started with Windows XP, choose VNC, PCAnywhere or any similar tools to connect to it.
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