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Ok here is my problem.

I have two seperate XP machines on a network together. No domain controller or anything like that. I have the same username and password account on each machine.

One machine isn't connected to a monitor and I haven't ordered a KVM switch yet. I will be doing that soon.

Anyway I want to be able to look at the services of this machine from the other. My main system I can go into the services control panel and stop/start services on it, and I have the option to "connect to another computer" and I type in the machine name. It finds it but says access denied basically. Both machines have the same account, and both accounts are admin accounts. I figured I shouldn't have a problem connecting into it from the other since the accounts matched.

Any ideas how this is possible, and what I'm doing wrong?

Start > Programs > Remote Assistance.

There's also programs like rdesktop that will allow you to login as a local user on a remote machine...

Doh!

You mentioned getting a KVM, and I forgot to suggest this software:

Synergy

Software KVM over Ethernet - I hadn't a chance to try it, but the idea is really cool and could save you $ome.

actually after reading your post I realized that XP does have the remote desktop stuff built in, and that will do everything I need fine. Works pretty well.

Thanks Canuckle.

trolli wrote:

actually after reading your post I realized that XP does have the remote desktop stuff built in, and that will do everything I need fine. Works pretty well.

Thanks Canuckle.

No prob, glad to help.

You can do it the first way without remote desktop. You just have to add a little something to the login account.

This has existed since 3.51.

If you are prompted for a user ID and password to access a machine. (this applies mostly to workgroup scenerios, but will work in domain environments too.) Prefix the user id with the machine (or domain) name.

For Example:

machine1\useraccount

This will tell it which machine to look at for the SAM account info. Even if they match on both machines, this will help solve it.