Remote Desktop Clients

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CNU182

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jun 22, 2006

• #1

Is there one/which is the best if I need to control XP machines remotely from my MacBook. It would be great if I could use XP to control them as well. Thanks.

 

jsw

Moderator emeritus

• Jun 22, 2006

• #2

VNC comes installed on all Macs (assuming even a vaguely recent OS version), so any VNC client on a PC should work (just make sure you've set it up on the Mac in System Preferences...->Sharing->Apple Remote Desktop).

Chicken of the VNC works well as a client to most VNC servers, such as those you'd install on Windows.

 

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nadyne

macrumors 6502a

• Jun 22, 2006

• #3

CNU182 said:

Is there one/which is the best if I need to control XP machines remotely from my MacBook. It would be great if I could use XP to control them as well. Thanks.

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There's Remote Desktop Connection.

 

yellow

Moderator emeritus

• Jun 22, 2006

• #4

Timbuktu is an expensive, but excellent resource for controling to/from Macs/PCs. (It's very much cross-platform)

Apparently now PCAnywhere supports OS X.

 

Nermal

Moderator

Staff member

• Jun 22, 2006

• #5

nadyne said:

There's Remote Desktop Connection.

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Seconded. The RDC client and server are both built into Windows, all you need to do is enable the server (System control panel) and connect using the client.

 

Sesshi

macrumors G3

• Jun 22, 2006

• #6

Timbuktu Pro is the best PC > Mac control I've used.
For the other way around (Mac > PC) like the others have said, the freely available Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for Mac is the easiest option.

 

jsw

Moderator emeritus

• Jun 22, 2006

• #7

nadyne said:

There's Remote Desktop Connection.

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*** slaps forehead ***

Of course, that's much better than what I recommended. I'm still upset with myself that I forgot about it. Works only with XP Pro and Win 2K/NT Server editions, though, right?

 

yellow

Moderator emeritus

• Jun 23, 2006

• #8

jsw said:

Works only with XP Pro and Win 2K/NT Server editions, though, right?

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Correct. XP Pro & various server styles.. and possibly Vista (once it's released).

 

balamw

Moderator emeritus

• Jun 23, 2006

• #9

OK anyone have any first hand experience in running RDC on Intel Macs? Does Rosetta render it less useful than on PPC.

FWIW there's also an X11 RDP client called rdesktop available from fink http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/rdesktop I know it's fairly decent on Linux.

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Sesshi

macrumors G3

• Jun 23, 2006

• #10

balamw said:

OK anyone have any first hand experience in running RDC on Intel Macs? Does Rosetta render it less useful than on PPC.

FWIW there's also an X11 RDP client called rdesktop available from fink http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/rdesktop I know it's fairly decent on Linux.

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I use it nearly every day over a 1Mbit link. Absolutely no issues worth mentioning. LAN speed is a bit slow but I'm not sure whether this is a problem with RDC clients in general or the slowness of Rosetta. You can certainly see the processor utilisation increasing though when RDC is cranked up (i.e. Rosetta overhead).