Question : I want to connect to my computer remotely but not using a Remote Desktop Connection.

Okay, I tried to use Remote Desktop Connection for connecting to my computer remotely and it worked and all but cause more then one person uses this computer, I would interfere with whatever they were doing at the same time.

I want to connect remotely without interfering with whatever they're doing.  I want to connect it so they won't even know I was there.  Now I have an ftp connection to my computer that does a great job gaining access remotely without bothering them.  My question is, is there another way to set up my computer so I can connect to it remotely without using Remote Desktop Connection or FTP Clients connection?

I'm not very smart at computers so I don't know the best way to ask this question, but I hope I gave enough information and you know what i'm talking about.

Some Facts about my comp.
-Uses Windows XP Professional,  The computer that will connect to this computer is using Windows XP Professional.
-I have cable internet, other computer does too.
-Both uses Ethernet Network Cards.
-Both WorkGroup Names are the same.

Answer : I want to connect to my computer remotely but not using a Remote Desktop Connection.

Remote Control

To Remote Control another PC/Server over a network you need some dedicated software

The most popular (because its free) is VNC (Virtual Network Computing) you can download it here

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ or Consider http://www.tightvnc.com/

*** If You want to trial an open ended shareware Program try...

RemoteControl from DataSet http://www.dataset.fr/eng/rc.html    

*** If you want to trial (Time Limited) a Shareware Product try...

HueyPC From GID Software http://www.grassheap.com/software.php?ID=2405

*** If you want to trial a commercial product try...

PC Anywhere http://www.symantec.com/pcanywhere/
NetOP From CrossTec http://www.crossteccorp.com/
RADMIN from Sunbelt http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=470 (cheap on small networks)

NOTE: If you intend to remotely control a Windows 2000 server use Terminal Services (add it as a windows componant and select remote ADMINISTRATION MODE) This gives you up to 2 concurrent connections
On your client install adminpak.msi from the W2K server disk. This RARELY works for Win XP, to fix  download this patch.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6E5DA79C-5C38-4445-B039-E3F3AA5E5B25&displaylang=en

If your using Windows XP consider "Remote assistance"
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/deployment/remoteguide/default.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gethelp/remoteassist/default.asp

Windows Netmeeting supports "remote desktop sharing"
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/NetMeeting/Features/RDS/default.ASP

If you need to connect to XP using OLDER operating systems look here
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/rdclientdl.asp

Bear in mind if you need to go through a router at home, you will need to enable port forwarding.
Or If you are going through a firewall you may need to open some ports, see the product documentation
for more details.

Of course if you lucky enough to have Novell you can use ZenWorks for Desktops as well!