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dml - 20 Oct 2006 16:27 GMT

I was using RDC successfully to connect my MacBook Pro w/10.4.8 to my
XP box at work until a couple of weeks ago. Now when I connect all I
get is a blue window that looks like part of the XP login screen, and I
am not able to log in to the computer. I've tried all of the display
settings in the Options menu. The last time I successfully logged in I
experimented with those settings and I suspect I broke something. Help!

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dml - 25 Oct 2006 19:24 GMT

I was able to fix my problem by removing the folder named 'RDC Client'
from the preferences folder on the Mac. it is in My
Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft

I had to re-establish my settings, but it seems to be stable now.

> I was using RDC successfully to connect my MacBook Pro w/10.4.8 to my
> XP box at work until a couple of weeks ago. Now when I connect all I
> get is a blue window that looks like part of the XP login screen, and I
> am not able to log in to the computer. I've tried all of the display
> settings in the Options menu. The last time I successfully logged in I
> experimented with tose settings and I suspect I broke something. Help!

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dml - 26 Oct 2006 14:09 GMT

Well, that fix did not hold. The same problem came back again last
night. The only difference I can see is that this time I left the PC
at work logged in. At lunch today I will log out from work, go home
and try to log in remotely and see if I can narrow down the conditions.

Aaarrrgh....

> I was able to fix my problem by removing the folder named 'RDC Client'
> from the preferences folder on the Mac. it is in My
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> > settings in the Options menu. The last time I successfully logged in I
> > experimented with tose settings and I suspect I broke something. Help!

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dml - 31 Oct 2006 15:32 GMT

I gave up trying to run this reliably on the Mac. Jsut too buggy for
me. I hate to say that I finally broke down and bought a copy of XP
Professional and installed in on my intel MacBook using Boot Camp, and
now I boot into the XP partition when I want to use remote
desktop. That works reliably great!

> Well, that fix did not hold. The same problem came back again last
> night. The only difference I can see is that this time I left the PC
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> > > settings in the Options menu. The last time I successfully logged in I
> > > experimented with tose settings and I suspect I broke something. Help!

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