Cannot copy-paste files/folders between local and remote machines but can copy-paste text

Question

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Can’t copy and paste in Remote Desktop session

I remote desktop to another machine(B) in the office network from my machine A(also on the network). On the machine B, I copy a piece of text (from a word file)and on machine A, I open up Msword and paste the text. It works fine. Now on machine B, if I copy a file or a folder and then try to paste it on machine A, this does not work. Why is this?

Solution

Remoting into another computer does not allow you to copy files between them unless you explicitly enable it (don't know where the option is off-hand). Best solution would be to find that or map a common drive between the two as an intermediary.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc728050(v=ws.10).aspx

Comments

[JamesR404]

Ah @Nixda beat me to it with screenshots :)