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I'm trying to connect from my Win7 Home to my Win7 Pro machine. I keep getting a connection error and to contact the administrator. This is after it prompts me for the user name and password (which I enter correctly).
The Win7 Pro machine has been set up to accept remote desktop connections as suggested by settings found in this article at HowToGeek.
What else should I be looking at to get this to work?
LordHits
Posted 2011-02-04T17:18:34.060
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That seems pretty strange. Have you tried to disable your firewalls on both machines to see if that would help? You could also try and reconfigure your remote settings to see if that will have an effect.
w7pro
Posted 2011-02-04T17:18:34.060
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Without changing anything between both machines other than restarting both, I have managed to now remote into the Win7 Pro machine. All comments above were good troubleshooting tips but since I only have one answer to this, i'm going to mark this as an answer. – LordHits – 2011-02-05T18:13:00.090
FYI, I can see shares on the Pro machine from the Home machine. And I can ping the Pro machine from Home machine. – LordHits – 2011-02-04T17:22:44.633
Any strange characters in your display name or machine name? – Aaron McIver – 2011-02-04T17:43:34.640
Nothing strange in machine name/userid/password. All letters (and some numbers for password :) ). – LordHits – 2011-02-04T17:52:42.687
1Did you try connecting with just the IP address? – None – 2011-02-04T18:02:37.070
1Did you add exceptions to Firewall (3rd party ones if any)? Also is any AntiVirus software on the server blocking remote desktop? – Ganesh R. – 2011-02-04T18:09:54.860
Maybe a router issue? You can only remote host connect to Administrator Accounts with Home edition. – Moab – 2011-02-04T19:01:21.423
1IS RDP enabled in the Windows firewall on both PCs? – Moab – 2011-02-04T19:03:55.700