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We're trying to get remote debugging working across domains from a windows 7 machine to a windows xp home machine. The machines are VPN'd together using LogMeIn Hamachi.

I've checked over the MSDN guide on getting Remote Debugging set up thoroughly and have gotten past a lot of errors, but I'm constantly running into blocks. I can get it into native debug but can't get managed debug to authenticate. Here are the things I've already done --

  • Visual studio and the debugging monitor are running on their respective machines as an identical administrator user -- debug/debug.

  • the debugger initially refuses to run on the xp machine, so i'm running it thusly: runas /user:debug "c:\josh\msvsmon.exe -nosecuritywarn -noauth -anyuser" and then switching it over to managed mode from there.

  • hamachi gives the computeres virtual IPs but not hostnames. I've resolved the IP of the remote computer to its host name in my local hosts file -- this got me past vstudio not being able to find debug@HOSTNAME and to my present place in paradise.

  • edit: right, my current error. I try to log on and get a "Bad Logon and Password" error in authenticated mode. I tried manually setting that "guests resolve to local accounts" message and that did not help.

Feel free to ignore all of those specific bits and just address my general problem -- i only included them for thoroughness and backstory etc.