Originally Posted by
OskiBear
Is there an easy way to run my Windows laptop through my desktop Mac with some sort of wired connection? I currently use Remote Desktop, which generally works but takes a while to set up each time. The address seems to always change and it's a bit of wasted time each morning to reconnect.
Originally Posted by
javabytes
Log in to your router and assign a fixed IP address to the computer you Remote Desktop into.
This.
There are a couple of different ways to accomplish this; the easiest is to use a feature common to most modern routers called
DHCP* Reservation or
Address Reservation and will usually be found in the
LAN Settings section of your router's configuration. Assuming you reserve the address that DHCP has
currently allocated for your Windows laptop, you won't need to do anything in Windows to enable this once the router is configured.
Refer to your router vendor's support/documentation for configuring a device to use this feature.
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