I have this bunch of computers at home with users; my wife, my kids and one on the garage and my laptop with two of my desktop with different uses. I was wondering if theres a remote desktop software out there that I could use on my local network the has the same functionality as Windows Remote Desktop.

One thing that I dont like about Windows Remote desktop is that i need to supply an password for those PC i would want to connect. I don't like passwords!

Second, I could not be able to collaboratively use the desktop with the current user. It goes to this logout screen. How could I possibly help someone in my family if he/she could not see the things Im doing.

I dont want to just try out softwares available since it is mostly web based and I just want a local one. So If you could give suggestions or software that you've already tried, thanks.

you can use a software named VNC it is free and can help you to control any pc on the local networks , besides when you work on remote pc they can see you

Like jjkeenan said, you can try VNC, i would suggest tightVNC, it's a variant of the original VNC, it's free and it support file transfer. You could also login from a browser like firefox or IE. http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html

If you can afford to pay a bit more, try RemotelyAnyway http://www.remotelyanywhere.com/template.asp?page=wehp

It gives you a lot more features which you might or might not needed. I use this for my computer when I go outstation. It also support only web interface, meaning you don't have to carry anything with you. Just a browser or any cyber cafe will do.

If you don't like passwords, I would like to suggest you to use a very funny option in VNC.
With vnc you can control if users have to give passwords or not. And you can allow some computers to connect, and refuse connections from some other ones.
So, what I suggest is the following : deny connection from every computer.
Then, allow connection from your own computer.
And then allow your computer to connect without giving password.

excellent.. i love to try this one. post back as soon as i set it up. thanks guys

I'd agree VNC is probably your best bet at this point. I know I've used some others where they had some killer cool options and normal password circumvention methods but they were all proprietary or pay software so you should try out vnc first and let us know.

I use Logmein for remote desktop connections. It has a web based interface and requires that an ActiveX component or Addon be installed on the controlling system. Although, it does require a password and the Free version doesn't support file transfers. I haven't used VNC as Logmein seems to fulfill my requirements. But, I presume Logmein is lighter than VNC.

Because I just use remote software for getting data from home pc.
And all of it was not important data.
So I use build-in netmeeting remote app for remote control only.

But you have to install the netmeeting 3.0 first on some system
such as windows NT 4.0.

Windows 2000 includes it already.
But Windows XP should be required installation.