Welcome to the Remote Desktop section of the Compsci web site.  Remote Desktop is a newer version of Terminal Server (Please go to the bottom and read the Remote Desktop info)  We the Student Site Administrators have realized that most students/teachers have a real problem understand the whole Terminal Server idea.  The whole concept of Terminal Server is to connect to our main server "NT2" for students and our teacher server "NT1". Both are extremely powerful machines which can handle a large work load.  

Terminal Server technology gives the ability to connect to the server computer and access all software installed on the server computer.  Advantages to this technology is that all you need is a computer with a low grade internet connection.  For example you are a student who wants to work from home and your computer is extremely out of date.  You computer can be the worst of the worst Pentium 75MHz.  It doesn't matter because the beauty of Terminal Technology is that all the processing is done on the server.  The only thing that your physical computer does is load screen updates and inputs keyboard/mouse commands.  

This technology should be used to your advantage.  Below are tutorials on how to setup Terminal Server from home and  how to use Terminal Server From School.

Remote Desktop Info

Remote Desktop is a new version of the Terminal Server Client.  What this gives you the user is the ability of reliable connection. You will never get "Illegal Operations" and any other errors.  If you are currently running Windows XP from your home you can connect to your computer and use all features that the Terminal Server Client could not give you.

Step-by-step information:

How to set-up the Remote Desktop Client at Home

Connecting to the Remote Desktop Client from School