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Why does remote desktop not work for me by computer name, and only by IP?
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Mar 15, 2026136756 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have a computer at work that I can only connect to remotely when using the computer's IP address and not when using the computer's name. I can see my computer name is set up correctly as "JoshPC" (for example), and there don't appear to be any conflicts with other PCs names. What could be going w…
Error Output
ipconfig /registerdns
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Fix for: Why does remote desktop not work for me by computer name, and only by IP?
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I hope you are connecting from a machine in the same network and both are Windows. From the machine where you are remoting to , What does give? Does it give a different computer name? If so then your DNS server is not updated with resource records o…
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