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What are the proper steps to connect via Remote Desktop Connection using only a LAN. The OS of machine A would be Windows XP and machine B would be Windows 7.
I would like to remotely connect to machine A from machine B.
What would be the first step and so on.
1Get them talking to eachother on a network, and then type the IP address into RDC. Simple as that! – Danny Beckett – 2013-08-06T11:29:22.660
@Raj - Purchase a router with 2 Lan ports. Assigned different ip addresses to each connected computer. Connect to said ip address. – Ramhound – 2013-08-06T11:30:12.040
@Ramhound: One doesn't need a router for this – a switch would be enough, and even that is not necessary with a relatively modern network card. – user1686 – 2013-08-06T11:37:53.303
@grawity - A switch requires more technical knowlege to setup. A router will work out of the box. – Ramhound – 2013-08-06T11:52:16.483
@Ramhound: What setup does it need aside from plugging in the cables and waiting for the systems to choose their Zeroconf IP addresses? – user1686 – 2013-08-06T16:01:53.207
@grawity - My experience is having to configure myself the intranet ip address for each client instead of allowing hardware to automatically assign the ip address. – Ramhound – 2013-08-06T16:37:34.673