is it possible to share the main computer?

[Nipheria]

Hello lads me and my brother living in the same house and each of us has computers yet his comp has way better specs and i want to know if it is possible for me to create a new user in his comp and use it via my junk laptop? like a remote control but i do not want to unterrupt his experience. long story can i create a new user in his comp and control it myself via my laptop while he can still do his thing?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

If it is for gaming you can use Steam Stream pretty easily though you might find it gives your laptop CPU quite a hammering. His PC will be locked, he will see the same image as you.

For everything else, Teamviewer?

 

[bug]

Hello lads me and my brother living in the same house and each of us has computers yet his comp has way better specs and i want to know if it is possible for me to create a new user in his comp and use it via my junk laptop? like a remote control but i do not want to unterrupt his experience. long story can i create a new user in his comp and control it myself via my laptop while he can still do his thing?

You can. Look up "remote desktop". You may need the Pro version of Windows for that, though.

 

[Nipheria]

If it is for gaming you can use Steam Stream pretty easily though you might find it gives your laptop CPU quite a hammering. His PC will be locked, he will see the same image as you.

For everything else, Teamviewer?

it can be for gaming also, i wish to play black desert online on a pc that actually has a GPU, plus as i said i dont want to unterrupt his experience, i once heard a server that provides remote desktop comps that has decent specs, it was monthly fee but im willing to pay a reasonable price

You can. Look up "remote desktop". You may need the Pro version of Windows for that, though.

is there a tutorial or vid for `remote desktop` in terms of what i want?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

is there a tutorial or vid for `remote desktop` in terms of what i want?

Google chrome has a very adequate secured remote desktop but all of those interupt his computer , could you run a vm in the background and remote into that though , I would use that myself, i remote in already but a vm could be used on more pcs ie work.

 

[Kursah]

You'll need to use some sort of Remote Desktop licensing if you want to remote on while he's using a current session. Standard RDP is limited to one physical or remote user per PC. Most remote sessions will either interact with the same session (LogMeIn, Teamviewer, Google Remote, RDP, VNC, etc) or you'll need something else that can allow multiple sessions between physical console access and remote console access. If you remote on using RDP while he's using his PC, he'll be booted to the login screen and his account locked (which will leave all his stuff open). If he logs in, your remote session will be closed.

The rest of those pieces of software will be you remoting on and interacting with him and his session. Again not what you want.

Windows Server can do remote sessions, but requires licensing to do so, and is far from what you want to do I imagine.

NComputing got round this with some software...which I have a copy of the disc somewhere because we still deploy a lot of their thin clients when offices want to cheap out on workstations. Not sure if they offer their software for purchase without a thin client...but it does work without the thin client. And really is the quickest way I can think of to have two sessions working independently on the same PC.

Edit:

You can make a free account at NComputing, https://www.ncomputing.com/en/support/software

Edit Part Deux:

I didn't think to ask before...but if you're planning on gaming through this connection, odds are you'll be sorely disappointed. For general browsing and work use, it should be just fine though. You might even get away with decent multimedia streaming if your network can handle the load, but RDP isn't really meant for heavy media streaming...but I have streamed over RDP before and it does work. So depending on your usage plans, this might not be the route you want to take...

 

[Nipheria]

You'll need to use some sort of Remote Desktop licensing if you want to remote on while he's using a current session. Standard RDP is limited to one physical or remote user per PC. Most remote sessions will either interact with the same session (LogMeIn, Teamviewer, Google Remote, RDP, VNC, etc) or you'll need something else that can allow multiple sessions between physical console access and remote console access. If you remote on using RDP while he's using his PC, he'll be booted to the login screen and his account locked (which will leave all his stuff open). If he logs in, your remote session will be closed.

The rest of those pieces of software will be you remoting on and interacting with him and his session. Again not what you want.

Windows Server can do remote sessions, but requires licensing to do so, and is far from what you want to do I imagine.

NComputing got round this with some software...which I have a copy of the disc somewhere because we still deploy a lot of their thin clients when offices want to cheap out on workstations. Not sure if they offer their software for purchase without a thin client...but it does work without the thin client. And really is the quickest way I can think of to have two sessions working independently on the same PC.

Edit:

You can make a free account at NComputing, https://www.ncomputing.com/en/support/software

Edit Part Deux:

I didn't think to ask before...but if you're planning on gaming through this connection, odds are you'll be sorely disappointed. For general browsing and work use, it should be just fine though. You might even get away with decent multimedia streaming if your network can handle the load, but RDP isn't really meant for heavy media streaming...but I have streamed over RDP before and it does work. So depending on your usage plans, this might not be the route you want to take...

Hello mate im not quite sure if i understood what you meant, im using windows every legally way if that is what you meant by licensing. so it happens i just watched some vids about remote desktop yet im still not %100 sure if i can use it the way i need to. and if i cannot do gaming that will be almost complately useless for me, well lets see gonna try now.

 

[Kursah]

Might as well stop now... RDP isn't designed for gaming, its designed for management and work.

There are different versions of licensing as-far-as remote sessions go. When you buy a Windows OS, it is allowed for single-session use. A session is a logged in user. That means you can have one active logged on user at a time.

There are other licenses that tie in with a Windows server deployed environment that can allow for multiple sessions at once on a single system, splitting resources between them.

NComputing does something similar as well, but I am at work and don't have time to confirm if they offer that software in the link I gave you though I imagine they do...their software allows a Windows 7, 8, or 10 PC to have multiple live sessions.

Regardless remote sessions and gaming are not meant to be...especially mixing with multiple active sessions simultaneously. There's technology out there for some of those types of deployment, but not cheap. Save your money, buy a gaming laptop/PC or hopefully share with your Bro.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

Yes it is possible but the cost to do true virtualization with gaming level graphics is far more than a new computer would be and I doubt your brothers system will be able to handle it.

IF you don't mind sitting next to your bro, or close you could do this...still requires a pretty serious system and a huge hassle to setup.

 

[dorsetknob]

Game on the Computer listed in your Specs that quite a reasonable system

 

[Caring1]

No it's not possible to both use the same computer, for gaming.

 

[bug]

For gaming, this might be worth a look: https://www.howtogeek.com/241300/ho...estream-to-any-computer-tablet-or-smartphone/

However, if we're talking simultaneously gaming, fuggidabout it. It's physically not possible, no software in the world would fix that. Unless you play non-demanding titles, but if you do you could play on your local system to begin with.