Invisible wrote:
>>> In Windows XP, you cannot "switch users" like that if the computer is 
>>> part
>>> of a Windows domain. 
>>
>> Is that true even if you log in remotely with RDP? I know we did that 
>> with Win2000, so I find it hard to believe XP can't?
> 
> Windows XP Professional supports 1 user logging in via RDP (but only if 
> nobody is logged in remotely). Windows 2003 Server supports multiple RDP 
> sessions, but Windows XP supports only one at a time. As in, before 
> anybody else can connect, you must disconnect (i.e., log out).

Yes. Distinguish "logged in" from "connected". Just like you can only 
"switch users" on XP Pro by locking the screen, you can have multiple 
programs running concurrently under multiple user accounts by logging in 
remotely under different names and disconncting rather than logging out.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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