how to get this working? - lvconley

This is in response to Tony Palmans' plea for help. Tony, you need a piece of hardware called a router to connect with your PC from a Mac over a LAN (Local Area Network). You can't connect directly to your PC with a standard ethernet cable (there are ways but I'm not going into that here). Routers cost on average about 70 bucks. You configure them through your web browser. The router acts as the DHCP 'server'. DHCP stands for Dynamic Hardware Configuration Protocol. It is the router which will assign (serve) all machines connected to it their IP (Internet Protocol) address-- this is the address/number needed for computers to communicate with/find each other on a network. Standard topology goes like this: Modem>Router>AllMachinesConnectToTheRouter. For extra info on connecting with a PC from your Mac using RDC take a look at this: http://www.ripplestorm.com/pages/reviews/msrdc/msrdc.html Hope that helps. Larry

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Sunday, December 21 2003 @ 02:16 PM PST

how to get this working? - camner

This is in reply to the previous, most helpful, comment.

(1) You can get a (wired) router for a lot less than $70! Linksys and DLink are two routers I've either had success with or have heard good things about.
(2) While DHCP is easier to set up (it "just works"), I find I can only connect my Mac to my PC via typing in the IP address...I can't get the "computer name" to be recognized. But, with DHCP, my PC's IP address keeps changing! So, I changed the PC to a static IP, and all is well..
(3) For reasons I don't understand, I can't use Remote Desktop Connection unless I login with a user on my PC (XP pro) that has a login password. For simplicity's sake, I had set up the PC not to require a login password, and RDC wouldn't connect (haven't tried the new version yet).

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Monday, December 22 2003 @ 10:19 AM PST