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I VPN into my work Windows PC (Win7) and used to use MS RDC to access it, but a little while ago a network move at work led to RDC no longer working, although CoRD still works fine. On attempting to connect with RDC 2.1 or 2.0.1, I get 2 error dialogs now. The first complains "The certificate is not from a trusted certification authority", whilst the second says that "The remote computer is not allowing connections from the Mac" (even though I have set the remote computer in question up to allow RDP, as evidenced by my ability to access it via CoRD).

I can still access other PCs on the same work network using RDC, just not the one I want to use! I'd prefer to use RDC over CoRD simply because it is faster on my MBP (which runs an up-to-date version of Snow Leopard).

If anyone has any suggestions as to what I can do to get RDC working again I'd be grateful!

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I had something similar happen to me once. What I did was to go into the Preferences for RDC, and in the Login tab, remove the value for the Domain parameter. That did the trick for me.

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That wasn't quite it, but it gave me enough of a clue to find the solution. Turns out I just needed to change Remote Computer Authentication in the Security prefs pane to 'Always connect, even if authentication fails' and I'm able to connect again. Dunno why I never thought to have a rummage round the prefs dialog! – Ewen Cartwright Mar 21 '11 at 21:20
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