Vista Home Premium doesn’t support remote logons (aka remote desktop). You
can file share from it (settings are found in the network and sharing
center), but you wouldn’t be able to log onto that machine remotely without
the use of a third party program.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" – Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help – www.rickrogers.org
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"Paul H" <> wrote in message
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>I have a few computers in my home network (all Ethernet, not wireless). I
>can’t log onto my wife’s Vista Home Premium (named tonis-acer) from my
>Vista Home Premium (PaulsAcerLaptop), another Home Premium laptop, my
>Windows 7 beta laptop, or an XP Pro laptop.
>
> I login in as:
> User name: Toni
> password: abc1234 (not really)
>
> response:
> User name: PaulsAcerLaptop\toni
> password: unchanged
> small window: "Logon unsuccessful", etc.
>
> Other computers don’t have this problem. What’s going on? Help, anyone.
> TIA, Paul
>
