Wireless and Remote Desktop

[MG]

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Have two wireless PCs and one wireless router (all Netgear). The two PCs can
see the router but I cannot connect using Remote Desktop. If fails not being
able to find the host computer. Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

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See this page for help...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html

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"mg" <mg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:583D9425-D2A1-4477-93EB-C2B08134F143@microsoft.com...
> Have two wireless PCs and one wireless router (all Netgear). The two PCs can
> see the router but I cannot connect using Remote Desktop. If fails not being
> able to find the host computer. Any ideas?
>

 

[Guest]

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Try connecting with the IP address instead of the computer name...
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Jeffrey Randow (Network MVP)

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:33:07 -0800, "mg"
<mg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Have two wireless PCs and one wireless router (all Netgear). The two PCs can
>see the router but I cannot connect using Remote Desktop. If fails not being
>able to find the host computer. Any ideas?