Remote Desktop from Mac to Windows 7

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Remote Desktop from Mac to Windows 7

Hey there,
I'm messing around atm with this Remote Desktop-thing.
I've tried many things yet I still haven't succeeded in connecting to a Windows 7 computer from my MacBook. Every time I try, I just get this message:
"+The Mac cannot connect to the Windows-based computer.+
+The problem can occur if: (then it lists three things+)"

Does any of you have any experience with connecting to a Windows 7 computer from your Mac?

Cheers,
Lasse.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Aug 19, 2009 8:51 AM

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Answer 1

rkaufmann87

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Aug 19, 2009 9:24 AM in response to Railion

I haven't tried it with Windows 7 but am having pretty good luck with a Windows XP Professional machine. What I did was just found the IP address to the Windows machine by:

Command Prompt, type ipconfig and locate the IP address.
Start RD, enter the IP address of the Windows machine, if the machine has a user name and password you have to enter that and then it works.

At least that's all I had to do. The key is knowing the IP Address and login and password of the Windows machine.

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Railion Author

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Aug 19, 2009 11:04 AM in response to rkaufmann87

That's absolutely perfect - it works now - what I did before was typing my computername instead of the IP adress of the Windows PC - even though RD said I could write that it didn't worked - Microsoft as we know them, lol.

Thanks a lot, buddy

Cheers!
Lasse.

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rkaufmann87

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Aug 19, 2009 6:35 PM in response to Railion

Your welcome!

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Tozaki

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Aug 30, 2009 11:52 AM in response to Railion

Try CoRD. We are experiencing the same problems when coming from off campus to on campus to a Windows 7 machine. We use Leopard 10.5.7 and 10.5.8. It use to work in Tiger. We worked around it and started using CoRD which works without any issues.

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Answer 5

Oct 3, 2009 10:07 AM in response to Tozaki

Thanks for suggestion, CoRD solved my problem connecting from OSX 10.6.1 to Windows 7.
Before that, using Microsoft RDC client, I was able to connect only on XP machine. Thanks a lot!

Message was edited by: Bernard Stimac

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