Setting Up User Accounts

[Brian]

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Here are the facts.

XP Pro desktop that is hardwired to a wireless hub (Lynksis).
XP Home laptop that uses the wireless connection.
Priority one is to enable the XP Home Laptop to have Remote Desktop access
the my XP Pro Desktop.

I enabled the Desktop to allow remote connections in the System Properties.
I understand that I need to add a user in order to connect; this is where I
begin having problems. I go into "Select Remote Users..." and then select
"Add". The "Select Users" dialog box opens up showing "Users" as the Object
Type and "DESKTOP" as the Location. I appear not to have any other options.

What do I enter as the object name? When I run the "Find Now" command in
the advanced tab, I get a several users that read as follows.

Name: Administrator, In Folder: DESKTOP
Name: Brian, In Folder: DESKTOP
and so on...

Where do I go from here? Will setting up a password be intuitive? I
relatively new to networking, so be gentle...

Thanks! Brian

 

[Guest]

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You enter the name of a user on the local XP Pro PC that you want to access/control from the XP Home
PC. The user is local to the XP Pro machine, not the XP Home machine, and must have a password.

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"Brian" <bfrei@cableone.net> wrote in message news:ueurR%23ZDFHA.1296@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Here are the facts.
>
> XP Pro desktop that is hardwired to a wireless hub (Lynksis).
> XP Home laptop that uses the wireless connection.
> Priority one is to enable the XP Home Laptop to have Remote Desktop access the my XP Pro Desktop.
>
> I enabled the Desktop to allow remote connections in the System Properties. I understand that I
> need to add a user in order to connect; this is where I begin having problems. I go into "Select
> Remote Users..." and then select "Add". The "Select Users" dialog box opens up showing "Users" as
> the Object Type and "DESKTOP" as the Location. I appear not to have any other options.
>
> What do I enter as the object name? When I run the "Find Now" command in the advanced tab, I get
> a several users that read as follows.
>
> Name: Administrator, In Folder: DESKTOP
> Name: Brian, In Folder: DESKTOP
> and so on...
>
> Where do I go from here? Will setting up a password be intuitive? I relatively new to
> networking, so be gentle...
>
> Thanks! Brian
>
>