Remote Desktop through lan cable
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- Enable remote desktop on the win7 computer.
- Make sure both are on the same network (e.g. connect the LAN cable to the same hub or the same switch; configure the IP stack to use the same subnet.
- [Start] [run]
mstsc.exe - Type in the name or the IP of the windows 7 computer.
Done.
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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raj over 1 year
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.
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Danny Beckett almost 11 yearsGet them talking to eachother on a network, and then type the IP address into RDC. Simple as that! -
Ramhound almost 11 years@Raj - Purchase a router with 2 Lan ports. Assigned different ip addresses to each connected computer. Connect to said ip address.
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Ramhound almost 11 years@grawity - A switch requires more technical knowlege to setup. A router will work out of the box.
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user1686 almost 11 years@Ramhound: What setup does it need aside from plugging in the cables and waiting for the systems to choose their Zeroconf IP addresses?
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Ramhound almost 11 years@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.
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ganesh almost 11 yearsTrue. 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).
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thanos.a over 3 years@Steve N. Not anymore. Since many years, network cards are smart enough to do the cross-over by themselves, so a normal ethernet cable will do the job as well.
