cannot log on to windows after opening R D C

[Guest]

pls excuse the long post but this is as short as i can make it.
have laptop w xp home and desktop w xp prof and a router (Network Everywhere
model NR041-wm)
(on the laptop) I open RDC and get a dialog box with 5 tabs. In the box
that says computer, i type the ip add of my desktop. my own name appears in
the user name box. i type a pw in the password box and type ms home for
domain. when i
click "connect", i get em: "the system could not log you on. make sure your
user name and domain are correct...." (there are only about 3 passwords and
user names that i use for EVERYTHING. it's not likely i would have used
anything else when the pw was originally entered). none of these work.
Some observations: when i try to connect to the laptop (from the desktop),
it's a different situation-- i get an em box labeled "remote desktop
disconnected" with an em: "the client could not connect to the remote
computer. remote connections might not be enabled or the computer might be
to busy to accept...." there doesn't seem to be a pw issued logging on to
windows with the desk top. The issue seems to be pw related with the laptop.
Several weeks ago i was attempting to network these 2 computers without a
router (my ignorance). I appearantly used a pw, which i dont remember, on
the laptop. I am the system
admn of both computers-- surely, there's a way to undo this mess.

ANY help would be appreciated. tks for suffering thru such a long post.








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[Sooner Al [MVP]]

See this page for help with Remote Desktop...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html

The user Id and password that you use to login with is local to the PC your
connecting to. Note that you also don't need to fill in the domain
information in a home workgroup environment.

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[Guest]

thanks for the quick reply, Sooner Al. The info about not using a domain was
helpful. looks like i have a bad pw, or user name. is there a way to go back
in, start fresh and reset the pw and user name ? I;d assume you'd open rdc,
click on options and when the big dialog bx comes up, type in
pw and user name, and click connect. when i do this i get the em: "the
system cannot log you in.
make sure your user name and domain are correct....etc" if you know of
another way to reset the user name/pw, pls let me know. a step by step would
be MOST appreciated

thanks

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Changing the password has to be done on the Remote Desktop host machine. The
password used is the normal user password for whatever user is logging via
RDP...

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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