Mac and RDP Issues

In a shell/terminal window, type

hostname

That'll return the hostname of the Mac... e.g.

bash-3.2 hostname
this-host.domain.com
bash-3.2

So in /etc/hosts, the easiest thing to do is to add that (this-host.domain.com) as an alias for localhost... So the line in /etc/hosts that currently reads

::1      localhost

should be changed to read

::1      localhost this-host.domain.com

The important thing is that whatever the hostname command returns needs to be in /etc/hosts to make it resolvable (Actually that's a little white lie... if you're somewhere that has the output from hostname resolvable already.. e.g. DHCP with DDNS) would work already.

You can test your entry by typing

ping `hostname`

The Backtick characters are important... If ping says it can't resolve the name, then /etc/hosts isn't correct.

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