I've used this trick a lot and some friends of mine weren't aware of it so I thought I'd write a quick post.

Have you ever been connected to a remote computer via Remote Desktop and needed to transfer a file between your computer and the remote computer? There's a lot of ways to do this including using administrative shares (e.g. \\mycomputer\c$ ), shared folders (e.g. \\mycomputer\shared_folder ), or mutual intermediate computers (e.g. ftp server, file server, etc.). Heck… I've even used Gmail.

With Remote Desktop there's an easy way to gain access to your computer from the remote computer via Windows Explorer. You have to set it up before you connect to the remote computer. Here's how to set it up.

1. Before you connect to the remote computer, click the "Option >>" button.

1. Next, select the "Local Resources" tab and click the "More…" button.

1. Next, select the drives that you need get access to from the remote computer.

1. Finally, after you have connected, open Windows Explorer on the remote computer and enter "\\tsclient\C" or replace "C" with whatever drive you selected.

That's all there is to it. Like I said, I'm running Remote Desktop version 6.0 so it might look a little different for you… but you'll figure it out.

Another cool feature of Remote Desktop (I think this only applies to 6.0) is that the window can span multiple displays if you launch Remote Desktop via a command with the span switch like this "mstsc.exe /span".