related error: logon failed when starting remote desktopHi everyone !I have 2 PC's with W7. Both share a drive. Both have the same username. The useraccounts have an empty password,and I changed a policy to allow local logon with blank passwords.Remote desktop works fromdesktop to the laptop.The desktop can access the share on the laptop, but the laptop cannot make any connection the desktop.I also tried making a connection as administrator, but to no avail.any help appreciated !cheers :)

both pc's can ping each other, and the firewalls are disabled.the laptop was also able to connect to the printer that is shared by the desktop

hello, I mapped the following manner, connect a network drive \ \ c $ and that was it. espero que te sirva. greetings.

I suggest that on the desktop computer, you click Start->Control Panel->Network and Sharing Center->Change advanced sharing settings. Please change the setting of Password protected sharing. If the issue persists, please let us know if it occurs whenever you create a mapped drive or access shared folders, or it only occurs when you setup mapped drive from the laptop.Arthur Xie - MSFT

I'm not interested in the problem anymore. I switched to Ubuntu ;)

I did theStart->Control Panel->Network and Sharing Center->Change advanced sharing settings and changing Password protected sharing to "off" but the laptop (also on WORKGROUP) can only get read access. It cannot write files. In a previous install of Windows 7 (only about 1 week ago), all I did was fire up Windows and all sharing worked. I didn't even have to turn on Sharing of that drive. This time, it's not working out of the box,I had to turn on Sharing explicitly, and I had to monkey with special permissions to even get to see files. Even though EVERYONE has Full Control, nobody can write files yet.What is THE root cause of a network share not being recognized from another computer, or of having to fiddle with permissions to allow read/write? Why would it have worked the first time I installed Windows 7and not the second time?