Remote desktop on home network

Hi
Can I remote access windows 7 PC on 27" iMac, on home airport extreme network, as I dont have broadband but use my iPhone as a personal hotspot to connect to the internet on iMac, if so how do I do this
Thanks in advance

You could use some thing like LogMeIn to remotely connect to a computer at work witch is running ARD.

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I have a machine running 8.1 pro with a connected printer, networked via an unmanaged switch to two macs in the network. One mac is a headless mac mini, the other is a mac pro i am using to access the pc via MRD. This network is not connected to the internet.
I can ping the pc from the macpro, and can see files shared on the pc, but cannot get MRD to connect.
One network cable from the macpro is connected to the isp's router, the other to the switch connecting the three machines. That second connection has a self-assigned ip, and the internet connection on the macpro is not shared.
On the pc in ipv4 properties, the ip address is set manually. Ip address and subnet mask are there (169.254.94.25 and 255.255.0.0) and default gateway is blank. Workgroup is set up as private. Remote Desktop is enabled. Firewall seems to be right. Windows
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I've tried MDR settings with the ip address of the pc in gateway and also without, leaving gateway blank and just using the name of the pc with the same result: "Unable to connect to remote PC. Please verify Remote Desktop is enabled,..."
The switch and cables are good. If I connect the switch to the router and change the ipv4 address to automatic, I can connect to the PC with MRD.
Any suggestions? Is there a setting I'm missing? I've searched the Microsoft site for help but find only the most general instructions, which I think I've followed.
I've asked this question on the Windows Web and Network discussion and was advised to post it here by the support engineer.

Hello JAS42,
If my understanding is right, one network cable from MAC pro is connect to the switch and the Windows 8.1 PC is connect to the switch too, and the IP setting in the Windows 8.1 is ‘(169.254.94.25 and 255.255.0.0) and default gateway is blank’.
If a DHCP server cannot be found or does not respond after one minute, the DHCP client checks the settings on the Alternate Configuration tab of the properties of the TCP/IP protocol.
If Automatic private IP address is selected, the DHCP client auto-configures its IP address and subnet mask by using a selected address from the Microsoft-reserved Class B network, 169.254.0.0, with the subnet mask 255.255.0.0.
Does the switch have the dhcp function?
What is the network setting in the MAC pro？ We could manually configure the IP settings of Windows 8.1 network connection and the connection in the MAC to the switch in the same subnet, and then check if the issue still exists.
For more information about subnet, please take a look at the following article.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc958832.aspx
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I'm trying to find a piece of Remote Desktop "Manager" software for Mac which supports Network Level Authentication (NLA). When NLA is enabled on a Windows Server I am unable to connect via CoRD or Royal TSX.
The reason I say "Manager" is because I have many, many windows servers I need to connect to and so I like to use software such as the above to save a list of all the servers for ease of access - this saves me having to type in the name of the server each time.
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Trouble connecting older Gateway desktop to home network

Hi all-
I am trying to connect an older Gateway 5200s desktop (that we have used for internet previously) to my current home network, but I'm not getting any internet connectivity.
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FJT109 wrote:
Hi all-
I am trying to connect an older Gateway 5200s desktop (that we have used for internet previously) to my current home network, but I'm not getting any internet connectivity.
Home router is Actiontec M1424 wr rev E.
the old Gateway uses Windows XP Prof v 2002 SP3
The wireless network adapter is 1394 Net Adapter and also the Intel R pro/100 VE network connection
(the Intel adapter says a "network cable is unplugged" and I never knew what that meant- connections have worked in the past)
My current home system is a Dell desktop running Windows Vista home
The old Gateway is up and running, but I just cant seem to figure out what the internet connection problem is.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Did you connect wirelessly before with this machine? Whose wireless adapter is the 1394 network adapter? - typically that means a firewire adapter that is not wireless.

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I don't know if anyone has encountered a similar problem that I'm describing below.
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Remote connect to home network

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Apple Remote Desktop

I have an issue with apple remote desktop, and a network account.
i have install the app in my desktop network account, once the application finish installing.
Asks me for a password, i change the password input the serial number import the list.
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Feeling lost here.

My first guess is that your network account does not have administration privileges to the system. That can cause ARD to not save the password even if you provide a valid user ID and password to install the application. If your account indeed does not have admin privileges, you need to log into the system with an administrator account to launch the ARD app at least once. It should then hold the password and allow you to use the app from your normal account.
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Logging into Windows Server 2012 from Remote Desktop requires "Connect with Smart Card"; how do I disable this?

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My printers works fine on my home network but disappears on a remote desktop terminal connection

As I don't really know how to post a general addition to the knowledge base, I'm doing in Jeopardy style. Here is the question to the above answer. Well close enough.
Many people have reported all over the net issues with printers working just fine on their home network but disappearing when they connect to a server via RDT. There are some legit updates needed where windows did not see anything but LPT and COM ports for printer re-direction assignment. There are Mr. Fix it's for those and registry patches. When all of that fails, the information highway seems to dead end.
Here is what I learned today via 2 specific printers: HP1022 and HP2840 lasjerjets.
After many months of frustration and 7 1/2 hours with Microsoft advanced prof support I've finally pinned down this printer and a slew of others. This problem as far as I have come across deals exclusively with HP printers. In simple terms: the drivers are flawed. This 1022 is a prime example. It prints locally and via TCP/IP just fine. I have about 7 other printers and dummy printers in my printer folder. Enter a remote desktop session and ALL of them populate except the 1022. This shows that the hooks and RDT finders are locating your printers and installing them properly as remote printers. All except the 1022.
Log out of your RDT session: goto the local 1022 setup and change the printer driver to a PCL driver. I used a 1200 PCL driver. Now log back into your RDT server and hockus pocus! there is your printer. Totally un-usable because the driver will not run this printer. Caveat: each time I did this XP crashed (I couldn't get to the properties TAB anymore -- I had to un-install the 1022 and then re-install it with at least 1 reboot in the process)
Moving on we go to the HP OfficeJet/LajerJet2840. Same thing. It won't pass through as remote printer in RDT. Go local. Set the printer driver to AppleLaserWriter8500 and boom. (same logout, change, back in steps) and your LJ2840 shows up and works.
While I will have to wait until tomorrow I am betting that this will fix the exact same problem with the HP Officejet 8500A all in one with the exact same problem.
Hey HP? Whats with the drivers??
Another work around if you have a static enough environment is to install your local printer that will not show up under RDT on the server, and then point the port to your fixed IP on your router, and passthru port 9100 to your locally installed printer that is failing. You can now be on RDT and chooses the network printer that is printing to the TCP address of your home (or office) router.

As I don't really know how to post a general addition to the knowledge base, I'm doing in Jeopardy style. Here is the question to the above answer. Well close enough.
Many people have reported all over the net issues with printers working just fine on their home network but disappearing when they connect to a server via RDT. There are some legit updates needed where windows did not see anything but LPT and COM ports for printer re-direction assignment. There are Mr. Fix it's for those and registry patches. When all of that fails, the information highway seems to dead end.
Here is what I learned today via 2 specific printers: HP1022 and HP2840 lasjerjets.
After many months of frustration and 7 1/2 hours with Microsoft advanced prof support I've finally pinned down this printer and a slew of others. This problem as far as I have come across deals exclusively with HP printers. In simple terms: the drivers are flawed. This 1022 is a prime example. It prints locally and via TCP/IP just fine. I have about 7 other printers and dummy printers in my printer folder. Enter a remote desktop session and ALL of them populate except the 1022. This shows that the hooks and RDT finders are locating your printers and installing them properly as remote printers. All except the 1022.
Log out of your RDT session: goto the local 1022 setup and change the printer driver to a PCL driver. I used a 1200 PCL driver. Now log back into your RDT server and hockus pocus! there is your printer. Totally un-usable because the driver will not run this printer. Caveat: each time I did this XP crashed (I couldn't get to the properties TAB anymore -- I had to un-install the 1022 and then re-install it with at least 1 reboot in the process)
Moving on we go to the HP OfficeJet/LajerJet2840. Same thing. It won't pass through as remote printer in RDT. Go local. Set the printer driver to AppleLaserWriter8500 and boom. (same logout, change, back in steps) and your LJ2840 shows up and works.
While I will have to wait until tomorrow I am betting that this will fix the exact same problem with the HP Officejet 8500A all in one with the exact same problem.
Hey HP? Whats with the drivers??
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The password used to log in to a user account remotely is the same as you would use to log into it locally. You can also use your Apple ID, so try that.
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