4/3/2023 0 Comments Itunes remote tab bar![]() ![]() By default, there’s one group “Saved PCs”. If you have a lot of computers you connect to, you may want to group them. You could instead use meaningful names like “Anna’s computer”, “Jack’s computer”, or “The nice lady who brings us donuts computer”. I find this even more helpful in work environments where they use naming conventions like “HR-PC-001”, “HR-PC-002”, etc. Using the friendly name you can enter “She who must be obeyed’s computer” and know what machine it is. Most home users don’t realize they can rename their computer and leave it at the default. Often when a PC is purchased the default name is something like WINRPXM457JB. Assuming you’ve installed the Microsoft Remote Desktop application, open it.įriendly name can be helpful if the computer has a cryptic name. Adding a PC to Microsoft Remote Desktop on your Mac Note you only have to do this once on this computer, after that it can be remoted to from other computers. If you want a standard user, in other words a non-admin user, to be able to remote in you’ll need to add them using the “ Select users that can remotely access this PC” link.Īt this point you’ve now setup your Windows computer to be remoted into. By default, if you are an administer on the computer, you are automatically able to remote to the computer. Note that for security reasons, I’ve replaced the actual name of my computers with simply in the screen captures.įinally, at the bottom look at the User accounts section. In this image it shows, but for you it will show the name of the computer. This has the name you need to enter into the Microsoft Remote Desktop app. Next, look under “How to connect to this PC”. You’ll first need to toggle on the Enable Remote Desktop setting, as I’ve done here. (You can click on the image below, or any of the ones in this article, to see them in their full resolution). On the System page, scroll down in the menu on the left and click on Remote Desktop. ![]() Click on the Start button, the pick Settings. I’m going to assume you are connecting to a Windows 10 Pro computer. But don’t open it quite yet, as we have to configure the computer you are going to connect to. Just do a search for Microsoft Remote Desktop, get and install it. Microsoft Remote Desktop is free, and in the Apple App Store. You can go from a Mac to Windows (or some Linux) computers using the Remote Desktop application, but not to another Mac. ![]() Note that it will not let you connect to another Apple Mac, as macOS does not support the Remote Desktop Protocol. While primarily designed for accessing a Windows machine, it will work with most computers that support the RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) such as many Linux distros. On my MacBook (although this would work on any Apple machine running macOS, such as a Mac Mini), the Microsoft Remote Desktop application is a fantastic program for remoting to another computer. It’s very convenient for me to be able to remote into another computer from whichever computer I happen to be on. In principle, the Music app + Home Sharing might be a solution, but it won't be until it's as fast, fluid and reliable as Remote was.I use many computers in my daily life, including Windows, Apple Mac’s, and Linux computers running a variety of distros. Playlists assembled "manually" display properly but the rules based lists show the entire library as their contents. Further more, Playlist based on rules seem to be broken. When I try to use the Music app + Home Sharing, it takes over 5 minutes to load the library, the artwork doesn't seem to ever cache so then it takes more time to load that, and it seems to forget the artwork when I scroll past it and so reloads it again as I'm trying to navigate, causing the interface to stutter. (Still is fast as light, but the Play buttons don't work anymore, now that Catalina/Music has broken it). Remote would start up in a flash from my iPhone or iPad and present a streamlined purpose built interface for quick scrolling through all of it. I have 1662 Albums (23400 Songs) in my library, stored on my iMac. Unfortunately the "iPhone music" app is buggy compared to the simple, light-weight, and responsive Remote app. ![]()
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