Remote Desktop Connection from a machine to itself

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The Remote Desktop feature cannot be used as both a host and client
at the same time.

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"Mr Colm" wrote:

| Hi,
|
| I'm trying to use the Remote Desktop Connection to remotely connect to my
| machine from itself. Is this possible? I've followed the online docs to
| allow remote access but can't see myself on the dropdown. I've tried typing
| 192.168.0.1 and localhost into the dropdown but neither of these work
| either.
|
| Could anyone help me out?
|
| Cheers,
|
| Jon.