Hello All; I have a very wierd issue. I have a Windows 7 machine that I can connect to from any other machine except the one I used to use to connect to it. The connection comes up, asks for my credentials, secures the connection, BRIEFLY flashes the window and puts me back to the RDP connect to window. I can connect to this machine from other PCs, and can connect to other PCs from the machine that is giving me this issue. It appears that ONLY these 2 machines will not talk to each other. In the Event Viewer on the host, I can see a winlogon 4005 error. If it was winlogon, why can other machines connect to this host? On the client machine, there is no error listed, and like I mentioned earlier, can connect to OTHER hosts. Has anyone else seen this kind of thing? All PCs involved are running Windows 7 Pro.

Hi, Are all the machines are inside the same subnet/domain? Are you using the same user id to do the remote to this machine from all the machines? Thanks, Girish

No... The machines are over the internet. I have tried from the same location as each one and have tried from the office to my house to the other house and it will work, but from that 1 machine in that office, it will not connect to the one machine at the second house... Connects to any other machine just fine... I am using the same (only) user account to connect to the machines in question. VERY puzzling!! Thank you; Mike

Hi Mike, It certainly is little wierd. The winlogon error generally happens due to following reasons. - System resources are inadequate or unavailable. - The Windows registry is corrupted. - A service failed to start. For more information on this specific error you can have a look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc734097(WS.10).aspx. Try to do the steps given in this link and see if the issue can be resolved. I will start with the last one first i.e. "A service failed to start". Thanks, Girish

The thing is that it ONLY happens when that 1 machine tries to connect to the other 1 machine... Connecting from or to ANY other machine works!! It can't possible be just a winlogon error unless there would be something to it that would be machine specific.