Remote Desktop : Connecting to a WinXP machine ?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 16 March 2006 02:47, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 00:34 +0000, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> > > Thanks Federico, that's indeed what I was looking for. :o)
> > > I enable it, but when I try to connect to it with Ubuntu,
> > > Windows asks me for a password !? :-/
> > > Strange, I didn't set any password when I installed Windows, so
> > > I have no idea what password it's asking for...
> > >
> > > Any idea ?
> >
> > I had a similar problem accessing samba shares on a WinXP
> > machine.  What I eventually did was just hit enter, and that
> > actually worked.  Perhaps it may also work in your situation.
>
> Yeah I tried that, but doesn't work. However it doesn't actually
> complain that the password is wrong, instead it says:
>
> "Impossible d'ouvrir une session car il y a une limitation des
> comptes".
>
> Not sure how that translates exactly, something like "Impossible to
> open session (connect), because there is limitation of (the number
> of?) the accounts".

Is it XP Home? That one has a limit of 10 connections to the machine 
or some other similarly bizarre restriction

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