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I use Remote Desktop for controlling my observatory. The only thing I'm careful of is to not leave the obs computer processing but logged-out.
For example, if I connect to it from the house and then disconnect later, if the computer is still controlling the scope - so taking images, autoguiding, running scripts, etc, then I'll go out there and actually logon to the computer to get a logged on session back alive on the computer.
I find that often if I leave it running but not logged on anywhere there will be memory leaks, from no specific app - CCDSoft, eTrust Antivirus, TheSky, CCD Commander, windows system tasks, etc. It doesn't seem specific to a particular app, it's usually just the app(s) that are doing lots of work.
At work I have seen Remote Desktop exhibit behaviour that is different to that of if you were actually logged on to the computer, mostly while installing applications - I know some app's that simply won't install when you are using Remote Desktop - giving indescript errors that don't appear related to Remote Desktop (has taken us days to debug). I haven't experienced any problems like this with the software I use in my observatory setup.
Roger.
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