"Newbie" <f***@bilbo.com> wrote in message
news:OQbOxATFHHA.1816@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi All
>
> Was just showing a colleague how easy Remote Desktop was to use when I
> couldn't get the bloody thing to work at all!
>
> To put you in the picture, the setup is a mix of WinXP Pro (majority) and
> a
> few WinXP Home machines, which are all networked and can quite happily
> share
> files between each other using standard network shares and can all get on
> the Internet.  None of them have any firewalls setup, as they are all
> protected by a mass of firewalls and proxies at the other end of their
> gateway/router box.
>
> Just because the installer didn't know what standard to follow at the
> time,
> a suite of 18 x WinXP Pro machines have 1 (computer admin) user account
> each, but some user accounts are called KentHall and some are called Kent
> Hall Jnr.  The installer also can't remember if they gave the
> Administrator
> a password when the machines were first booted up, but they are more
> confident that they just left the password as blank, which I think they
> did.
>
> So, I right-clicked on say WinXP Pro PC1's My Computer icon and set it to
> allow remote desktop connections and looked at the user section and saw
> that
> any computer admins could connect so I didn't need to add any entries.
>
> I wen to Remote Desktop (via the Accessories section) on WinXP Pro PC2 and
> tried to connect to PC1 using it's UDP (not sure this is the right ref)
> name, which is ictpc1 with a login of KentHall and no password.  Even
> though
> the other PCs Desktop background appeared it then brought up an error
> message saying an account restriction denied this or something like that.
> Tried Administrator with no password - no luck.  Tried the user account
> name
> on the PC that I'm trying to connect to, eg Kent Hall Jnr, but still the
> same error message appeared.
>
> Tried to get a WinXP Home PC to connect to this PC1, but that brought up a
> completely diff error message about no terminal service.  I'm putting this
> down to the fact that WinXP Home doesn't have the necessary components by
> default so I don't want to mess about getting this one to work.
>
> But why won't my WinXP Pro to WinXP Pro connection work?
>
> Even though Remote Desktop access me for a login, is the system still
> looking at the account that I'm logged into my machine?
>
> If an administrator isn't set a password, does the system give it a
> default
> one for security reasons?
>
> Help!
>
>
>