This has happened on two seperate computers and is a total mystery to me. Remote Desktop has been used on a regular basis for ever it seems but all of a sudden, when attempting to connect to my home office machine, I click on connect, it grays out and then becomes active again. No error message, nothing. I can Remote Desktop to the other computers.

A little background. There are 6 computers on my home network, 2 in the observatory and 4 in the house. The home office machine handles the e-mail on my account using Outlook 2003. So I usually will Remote Desktop to the office machine to check e-mails from time to time throughout the course of the day. I can see all the computers via the network and access the drives that are shared. Remote Desktop was working fine just 1/2 hour ago but now gives this weird behavior. I rebooted the office computer as well as the observatory computers without any change.

I use Panda Internet Security and neither it's nor Window's firewall is turned on. I have the network using 2 DLink 10/100/1000 switches and the Hughes HNS7000 satellite modem is the DHCP handler.

Anyone care to take a stab at what the heck may be going on?

Thanks,

Do you periodically recycle or reboot your modem?

There isn't a network connectivity problem here as I can see all the computers and access them. It seems to be a changed setting somewhere in software effecting Reomte Desktop.

Actually a list of required XP services might come in handy. Anyone know a referance site for this?