symantec pcAnywhere- can't enter login info on remote with xp home

[Guest]

have laptop with xp home and desktop with xp pro. have pcAnywhere installed
on both units. just finished configuring the host (desktop)-- no problems.
The laptop is a different story. Am using the host wizard. 3 dialog boxes
after opening the wizard, there is a screen where you click "add" and type a
users name that you are granting access to on that computer. this brings you
to a dialog box entitled identification which wants a login name and a pw.
Every name and pw that i enter here, it rejects with the em: "an item already
exists with the name you specified. please use a different name"
I know xp home cant serve as a host computer with remote desktop connection.
is this the problem i'm running into here. Have already read the manuals
that came on my cd from Symantec-- they don't address the issue.
Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/home_homeoffice/products/pca/pca_115/index.html

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[Sooner Al [MVP]]

I forgot to add that if you can't get PCAnywhere running on the laptop you
might look at UltraVNC with its encryption plug-in as a free alternative...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/index.html

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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[Guest]

Thanks for the tip Sooner Al but i've already spent my nickel and i'm going
to get this thing connected. Don't know why it connects from Host (win xp
pro) to remote (xp home) unless the issue is with xp home not being able to
serve as a host. Anyway, tks 4 the reply.