Remote debugging - Remote debugger doesn't support this version of Windows error

Question

I have an XP client that is experiencing an issue. My dev box is Vista Home 64. I start up the debugger on the client machine and when i try to run on the dev box, it says 'Unable to debug. Remote debugger doesn't support this version of windows'.

Looks like I'm sol. is there another way to find out how to debug this? The application is throwing a .net runtime error eventid 5000 with a system.security error. Not sure why the try catch isn't getting it. Is there some way to find out what's going on?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You may be running into issues with the 64-bit debugger not being able to deal with the 32-bit debugger client.

There was a question a while ago talking about problems connecting a 32-bit debugger to a 64-bit target (which I think is the opposite from your situation):

• x86 Remote Debugger Service on x64

Even though there's no resolution there, it might give you some ideas - maybe it's as simple as making sure you're running the 32-bit version of the debugger on the x64 machine (if that can be done simply)..