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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.
raj
Posted 2013-08-06T11:27:36.810
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mstsc.exeDone.
Hennes
Posted 2013-08-06T11:27:36.810
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If you want to connect them together with just a cable, you need to make sure that the cable you have is a crossover cable, not just a regular cat5 LAN cable.
Then you need to configure each computer with an IP address in the same range. Eg 192.168.0.10 and 192.168.0.20 Then they will be able to see each other – Steve N – 2013-08-06T11:49:49.283
True. Though autoMDI/MDX is quite common these days (and is required on Gbit NICs), unless both computers are very old this should not be a problem). – Hennes – 2013-08-06T11:51:32.527
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