Remote Desktop Connection For Macintosh Won't Resolve PC Names

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smisra.list@gmail.com - 28 Apr 2005 05:14 GMT

I am having a multitude of problems with RDC for Mac (from Microsoft).
1st, it took a long time of playing with settings and rebooting
(praying), just to get my G4 Powerbook to connect using the ip address
of the PC (192.168.0.xx) - both my G4 and the PC are on the local
network. Finally got that to work, and was able to see the Windows XP
login screen on my Mac's RDC client.

Then I tried to connect to the PC using just the PC name - it doesn't
work. I can't even ping the PC name in Terminal - how does this work.
I am returning to using Macs after several years, and am trying to
update my knowledge of Mac networking basics.

Thanks for your advice and suggestions.

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Tom Stiller - 28 Apr 2005 11:55 GMT

> I am having a multitude of problems with RDC for Mac (from Microsoft).
> 1st, it took a long time of playing with settings and rebooting
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> I am returning to using Macs after several years, and am trying to
> update my knowledge of Mac networking basics.

You can't ping by name because the PC's name is not known to any DNS to
which the Mac can connect and there's no entry in the Mac's NetInfo
database or hosts file to translate the name to an IP address.

Launch "NeInfo Manager" (/Applications/Utilities) and create an entry
for the PC in the "machines? subdirectory.

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Remote Desktop Connection For Macintosh Won't Resolve PC Names