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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: zxcvbob on September 19, 2020, 02:44:57 PM
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It has "Remote Desktop Connections". Other Windows 10 PCs have both. I can sign onto my home PCs using RD, but not RDC for some reason. Any idea where I can find the just plain RD app? I have looked the optional Windows features where you have to enable things like FTP, Internet Explorer, Wordpad, &c, and I don't find it there.
Maybe it's just missing from the corporate install media and I need to install from Microsoft media. (it's an ancient i7 laptop we dragged out of storage because my newer i7 laptop just hit 5 years old so the company wants it back so they can destroy it, but that's a topic for another day) I know I can install W10 Pro from M$ media and when I sign onto the corporate network they will convert it to the enterprise version; I've tested that with my old PC.
The other side of the coin, is there something I need to do besides enabling remote desktop on the host PCs so RDC will work? These are PCs that don't even have a display, so I always remote in to them rather than drag out a display and hook it up.
(first world problems; wrangling too many computers at home plus one at the office)
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Try start->run->mstsc
If this is installed from a corporate license I wonder if it has built-in group policies that are limiting you.
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Thanks. Another PC with the same corporate image has it, although it was installed a year ago at 1903 and upgraded recently to build 2004. The one w/o Remote Desktop was freshly installed at 2004. They should have exactly the same group policies. But I haven't tried MSTSC yet...
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MSTSC brings up the same Remote Desktop Connections that doesn't work. It wants me to enter a PIN. I tell it to sign in with another account, and enter my userid and password on the remote system and it fails. Doesn't tell my why it fails.
I should see what program the link to Remote Desktop on the other systems points to...
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The one I wanted wasn't installed but was available for free from the Microsoft Store. "Microsoft Remote Desktop". I don't know what the difference is.
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REALVNC is what I use.