All test i did where on XP Home.
....
In my tests, Home worked the same way as you have for Pro.
physical computer or vmware computer guest xp home sp2 english ?
Could be related to language of OS ?
Source code may different effect between language OS bug ?
Because I have no issue to connect to vmware guest -- as computer_name -- SYSTEM -- xp home sp2 english
MV.exe started as system (error: server unreachable ), mv.exe not started or network not reachable....
I have checked on real computer xp home sp2 french,
services.msc
mv_service_a started automatic and logon as and interact with desktop.
maybe problem of network driver or some patch of XP
or
swisscom unlimited 1.6 driver. (I need to reload factory XP Home sp2 french without this software for EGPRS/GPRS/WLAN
Does the Home has another firewall as pro ?
both xp pro and home windows firewall disabled
only router have firewall, computers are on same subnet.
cardspace is a WPF app ? so it is based on directx....
I don't know but I know it block the local ctrl+alt+del while running cardspace... frozen all others application without any connection of pwh
I cannot check the short name of cardspace, I have no access to task manager (blocked by cardspace)