Windows 10: Connecting from MacOS to Windows via Windows App RDP

I'm on MacOS 15.1 and downloaded the "Windows App" from the Apple App Store, which replaces Remote Desktop. When I try to connect to a Windows Windows 11 Pro computer on my home network, I get this error:We couldn't connect to the remote PC because the PC can't be found. Please provide the fully-qualified name or the IP address of the remote PC, and then try again.Error code: 0x104I have a Windows virtual machine on this Mac. Remote Desktop Connection is available in Windows Windows 11 Home. I enter in the same PC name and credentials and connect successfully. I did get the trust warning.W

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macOS RDP client does not support interactive login

In reference to the macOS Windows RDP client, appending this line to a .rdp file: enablecredsspsupport:i:0

does not bring the expected interactive login screen as for the Windows native RDP client, which is very limiting for our application case.

Is this inconsistent support of the RDP clients known and is there a workaround for the macOS (and Linux) client?

Best,

Sebastien

 

Printing Issues MacOS > RDP > Windows 10

I mean RDP as Remote Desktop app on the MacOS store. My issue is solely isolated in Microsoft’s official Remote Desktop app for MacOS.

As different printer makes no difference, different Remote Desktop version makes no difference. Just recently Microsoft released a beta to solve MacOS Sonoma issues with redirecting printers. I have access to the printers just wrong formats in the output, no matter my input.

If there is a specific forum for Microsoft app support in Mac systems I will post this there. As I’m convinced by the recent update/issue history concerning Microsoft Remote Desktop and Mac devices that the issue has to do with how MacOs and Remote Desktop operate.

 

I can RDP to my Windows 10 laptop using MS client for macOS, but not from my other Windows 10 PC

As RDP from the macOS client is working perfectly, I can rule out RDP not being enabled on the target laptop, or firewall issues. What can it be? Why would the Windows RDP client be unable to connect when the macOS one is fine?

The failure occurs at random stages:

- usually I am challenged to log in

- then sometimes I'm asked to accept the certificate

- then the screen opens but is typically totally black

- then the "Reconnecting" dialog appears. Sometimes it goes away (like it reconnected, but remote screen stays black)

Both PCs have no problem connecting to other services, internet, etc.