Remote Desktop OK/Computer Management Problems

Hi,

I have recently started to use Remote Desktop Connection to access a machine on my local home network and it works fine and in both directions. Once the desktop appears for the remote machine I can access Administrative Tools|Computer Management and, for example, I am able to shut the remote machine down.

Now here is my problem. This time I do not use Remote Desktop Connection to access the remote machine but instead do Administrative Tools|Computer Management|Action|Connect to another computer. The connection is established without error (it seems) but when I select Action|Properties I get the error "Win32: Access is denied" and only one (General) of the three tabs show in the resultant window. I am therefore unable to shut the remote machine down using this method.

Should I be able to access the remote machine using the second method described above? If so what is the cause of this error message?

Also I did wonder if it was possible to browse the contents of the remote computers shares from Computer Management console?

Regards Basher

 

I'm not positive but it sounds like using method #2 you aren't connecting with the proper permissions as you would if you signed on via remote desktop.

The things you want to do require administrative privileges and what you are seeing is about what a guest logon would allow.

 

Yes that does rather sound like what is happening but I can't see why. You see I have disabled the guest account on all machines on the network and the only accounts setup on the remote machine (the server) are both administrators accounts.

The other thing that bothers me is this. When I first used method #2 I am sure that I needed to enter an account name and password. But now when I connect I am not prompted. It's as if these settings have been remembered.

So the question is how to I change the user account that I connect to on the remote machine?

Regards Basher

 

Make sure you are logging on to your PC with username & NON-BLANK password.

Add your account (exact same name & pwd) to the remote machine & add it to the local admin group. Should work then. Pwd, as always, is case sensitive.

The other option would be to start the mgt console with a right-click, Run As, and enter the account name & pwd of an admin account on the remote system.