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Old 07-09-2008   #1 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Preventing remote logout

I cannot work out how to prevent Vista from logging the user out after a period on no activity. I have set power control to Never and screen saver to none. It's the logout that is still happening, not screen saver or power down.

I am remote-controlling a Vista Home Basic 32 machine from an XP sp2 machine (Home: no Remote Admin).

I am using LogMeIn to do this

Vista machine does not seem to recognise my activities, so that every few minutes it logs me out. This also disconnects the remote connection
- (and actually disconnected _my_ VOIP phone connection at the same time in a couple of instances! It did not just hang me up. I lost the dial tone and had to cycle my router).

Also when the remote Vista user logs back in (I can't do it because I am now disconnected) their network and internet connection has to reconnect all over again.

Thanks for any help.

Nick

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Old 07-10-2008   #2 (permalink)


XP sp Home, Vista X32 Home basic
 
 

Re: Preventing remote logout

Nobody?
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Old 07-10-2008   #3 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate x64 MAK, OpenSolaris 5, Gentoo 2008.1....
 
 

Re: Preventing remote logout

Check your screensaver and see if it is set to always ask for a password on resume....
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Old 07-11-2008   #4 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: Preventing remote logout

AFAICS, if I have screensaver set to None, it should never be involved.

Nick
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Old 07-16-2008   #5 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: Preventing remote logout

Here is an update again. I am not sure what it means.

Yesterday I went to the place where the Vista machine is, and remotely logged in to my XP machine here at home. After the session I actually disabled the LogMeIn on my XP machine and that of course dumped me off the session.

When I came back home, my XP machine had logged me out as a user, and required a password to get back in! This is something I have successfully set up my XP machine not to do. It often sits for long periods unattended, and never logs me out as a user.

Thanks for any advice, again

Nick
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