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Remote Desktop Client

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im having trouble connecting to my vista based pc with my mac using this program
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/r ... fault.mspx

And imusing the remote accessthingo that vista has in remote settings.

I keep getting the same error saying that there is no such PC on the requested IP
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Re: Remote Desktop Client

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Remote desktop is turned on right? Not "remote assistance", but remote desktop.

Right click on My Computer >Remote tab >lower half check "allow all versions of remote desktop"
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Re: Remote Desktop Client

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Yea thats turned on bubba, there are several computers on the network do i need to do anything special because of this?
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is there an entry in the firewall for it?

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Check the Firewall and also check to make sure its not hibernating or sleeping. PC's wont wake up for remote connections.

Are you using the IP or the PC name to locate the PC. Looking through the help files on your link it looks like you have to use the PC name not the IP.
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I actually had to turn on the firewall to use it. but yes it is allowed acessok buba might have a quik look now
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What about using Apple's Bonjour? From what I remember it was pretty easy to setup and use.
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Major_A wrote:What about using Apple's Bonjour? From what I remember it was pretty easy to setup and use.
Never heard of it? Care to explain?
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kappage wrote:
Major_A wrote:What about using Apple's Bonjour? From what I remember it was pretty easy to setup and use.
Never heard of it? Care to explain?
It's just Apples "RDP Client / Server" program. It also uses "zeroconf" to broadcast the pc's netbios name around the network; so you can go to "network neighbourhood" in windows to find it
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