Re: RDC won't connect to XP Pro with Machine Name only IP

<pingaloca1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
> Processor: intel
>
> I have a mac and a windows xp pro desktop all connected to a home
wireless 
> router through DHCP. I can connect to the XP machine using RDC for mac 
> using IP address but not computer name. Any help would be appreciated. 
> Could it be a setting on my mac I am missing?


Try using the domain name "<hostname>.local" when you specify which
Windows 
machine to log into.  I have been able to verify this to be the case on
Mac 
OS X 10.4 as Remote Desktop client, logging into both a Windows XP Pro SP3

and Windows Vista Business SP1 RDC servers.

It seems to me that the Mac client doesn't like using Windows SMB host 
names... but instead, prefers using Bonjour to locate servers, or host
names 
that can be obtained from DNS.  In my case, adding Bonjour to Windows may 
have assisted in the login process (I have Bonjour installed on both
Windows 
systems), but I am not willing to change my Windows installations to
verify 
this point (sorry!).

Hope this helps.


>
> The xp machine is set to accept remote desktop connections and all 
> firewalls are turned off. The xp machine user accounts all have
passwords.


--tonza