Home Forums Wired vs Wireless vs (A Compromise)?

This is what the 6.1 version of RDC looks like. You can see the dropdown box with the list of computers. Notice the computers are named as Fully Qualified Domain Names. What's cool is the .local or .gorilla depending on what you used in your setup (by default, it is local, and I would use that over gorilla, makes the domain name "riverview" a routeable domain name that will connect to that computer over the Internet. While you can use the private IP addresses such as 192.168.16.7 to connect over the network, the private IP addresses are not routeable. So, it is best to keep it clean and use FQDNs on all computers, which has to be on a domain network. This is one place where Microsoft got it right.



Once RDC is used on your remote machine or on the network, the FQDN are automatically added to the Start Menu RDC icon. So, simply click on the Start Button and click on a computer, and you will connect extremely securely with no middleman/woman and very fast.