remote desktop question

[jonnyboy]

Just setting this up at the moment. The host computer at the moment I dont have an administrator password set up on it. Do you have to set up a password in order to connect using the remote computer? On the laptop I'm using to connect to it its asking for a username/password

ta!

 

[biojo]

use a username and password thats set up on that specific pc

try
Administrator

password: leave blank

if not just any persons account on that pc should do it

 

[cava83]

add the local user to the administrator group then it should work. (not the correct way of doing it, but on a normal household this is the easiest way)

 

[jonnyboy]

yeah I think you have to have a username and password whichever way you do it. Wont allow you to leave password field blank. I've just added a password to the administrator account on the host pc and it works.

 

[Daz]

Remote desktop won't let you login if you have no password (by default anyway).. so you have to set at least something.

 

[biojo]

i just presumed ms , where slack enough to let somet like that happen , i knew it works on most ppls pc`s when at em ,

 

[jonnyboy]

found out you can set the host pc to auto login to get round the problem. I have a tower with no monitor I want to run purely off remote desktop so I'll have to do that one with auto login

 

[Daz]

You don't need to login locally.
And, if it's XP, as soon as you remote desktop it'll log the local user off as it has a 1 session limit.