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Asked: 2026-05-22T01:59:44+00:00

Hey everyone, I’m having trouble configuring my remote debugging set up. I’ve been searching

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Hey everyone, I’m having trouble configuring my remote debugging set up. I’ve been searching and reading for a while, but I can’t figure it out. I’m running windows 7 as the pc I’m running VS on and then have windows 7 running in virtual box as the pc that is running the program I’m trying to debug. I’m trying to debug a .NET 4 project.

Both computers are not part of a domain (I’m not sure if that matters). I’m running the debug monitor on the virtual pc via a shared folder on the non-virtual pc.

When I try to connect to the remote pc in the attach to process window in VS it connects, but fails to launch, and I get an error that says 

Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging.
The specified network name is no longer available.

Let me know if I need to say anything else about my set-up.

Thanks for the help!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I finally figured out my problem(s).

    1. I was using the wrong PC name to connect to the host machine. I was using the Server name that you can type in the VS remote debugging monitor. I had it working when I did the server as ‘Stephen@192.168…’ where that was the actual ip address on my subnet

    2. Windows didn’t properly configure the firewall ports for me. I had to manually open the DCOM ports to get it connecting.

    3. I had to clear the existing credentials for each machine once everything else was set up as is shown here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2dbesfyx.aspx

    Thanks everyone for your help and pointers.

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