Changing the displayed IP in mstsc's connection bar

Question

I have an application which allows me to connect to 127.x.x.x and automatically be redirected to a remote machine. When I use mstsc to connect to this address, the title is the ip - 127.x.x.x. Is there a way for me to change the title (when in full screen mode = connection bar)?

Answer 1

You could add the name you want displayed to your C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file and use that name to use in the "Connect to" field in the RDP client. Your hosts file would look like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain remoteHostname-rdp

Add the '-rdp' or some other suffix to avoid collisions with the real name in the host.