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Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client 2.0 (Beta)
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It was including in Office 2004 as in optional install and free to download online.And well worth it at twice the price.
So with this I can turn remote wintel boxes on high bandwidth connections into FTP file servers, http file servers and remotely run legacy wintel apps?
Any wintel settings in particular needed?
Rocketman
Any wintel settings in particular needed?
Rocketman
Actually, versions of most recent client Windows installs (XP Pro, etc) support RDC serving. The feature was rolled out so extensively so that admins could remotely administrate computers over the network. Much the same reason why OS X workstations can serve ARD for free.
Bashing Microsoft is fine, but it ought to at least vaguely have some basis in the truth....
I think they meant actual Windows terminal services instead of just remote administration.
Note: I've done both and hope to implement Terminal Services again.
I get 1440x900 on my iMac when I log into a Windows Terminal Server... I did in the previous version of RDC also...
The only thing I don't like so far is actually the move of the preferences out of the login window... I thought that the previous Mac RDC was more intuitive than either the new one or the Windows one in this regard....
You mean Microsoft has finally put out something else for the Mac?
Well, MSN Messenger really must have wiped them out
I'm glad to see this being done, but I'd rather it was offered as a plugin for ARD 3.
Speaking of which, now that Apple got through the emotional hurdle of making fullscreen QT free... how's about some free ARD loving (Apple's version of the client software, that is)?
As long as the firewalls / NAT permit it, yes. I RDC over the public internet all the time.
How'd you get that? It would be immensely helpful to us if you'd submit a bug report on Microsoft Connect that tells us what you were doing at the time that you got that bug. If you can reproduce, please outline those steps as well. Being verbose in bug reports is an excellent way to help us fix the bugs that you experience.
petieg said:
You should log a suggestion on the aforemetioned MS Connect website. We released this public beta specifically to get direct feedback from our users, and that's the best way to get it to us. Please log your suggestions separately -- this goes directly into our system, so having two suggestions in the same item makes it harder for us to track how we're doing at implementing suggestions from our users.
mkrishnan said:
Wow, you're the first person that I've heard say that!
I can't tell you how many times I've heard people ask for features like file sharing because they couldn't find them hidden under that disclosure triangle. If you'd like to know more about some of the user experience work that we did on RDC, you can check out my post to the MacBU team blog about it. Regards,
Nadyne.
I agree with mkrishnan. The first thing that I noticed was, "Where did all the preferences from the login window go?"Wow, you're the first person that I've heard say that!
Regards,
Nadyne.
I found them again under Preferences (Cmd + ,) but you get used the interface on a product. Additionally I liked the drop down presets for features given a certain connection speed. Not that I don't know what my LAN can handle but it might help other users to bring those back.
Moving of Preferences
Yes, this certainly caught me unaware at first since the Preferences were no longer in the main interface. It was handy to have them there, but ultimately, moving the application's preferences to (*gasp*) the Preferences window makes good sense. I've found that the new layout is better structured than RDC1's, and I'm actually taking notice of certain features (such as sharing your Mac's drives on the PC).
Yes, this certainly caught me unaware at first since the Preferences were no longer in the main interface. It was handy to have them there, but ultimately, moving the application's preferences to (*gasp*) the Preferences window makes good sense. I've found that the new layout is better structured than RDC1's, and I'm actually taking notice of certain features (such as sharing your Mac's drives on the PC).
Yes, you can use RDC from anywhere but you might have some stuff to set up.
First, you'll need one of the following operating systems. Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Media Center, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Server 2003. All versions of Windows starting with XP Home come with the client, similar to the free Mac version. I'm not sure if you can connect to a user if it doesn't have a password.
In XP, right click "My Computer" to get to system properties. From there, click the "Remote" tab and then check the box to enable connecting to this computer remotely. You might need to add users to the list. Your current user is automatically added.
In Vista the process is similar. Right click "My Computer" to get to system properties. I think Remote Settings is on the left side of the window.(I don't remember, I may be wrong about that.) Once you find the remote settings, click the radio button for the less secure connection. You might need to add users to the list. Your current user is automatically added.
Second, do you have a router? If you don't, I don't think there's much to do. You might have to enable port 3389 in your firewall. If you do have a router, you'll have to open up port 3389. This site http://www.portforward.com has some good guides for that. Just go to the home page, click "common ports", find "Remote Desktop" and then look for you router model. As an example, here is the guide for setting up RDC with the Linksys WRT54G router(version 5 and 6) http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Linksys/WRT54Gv5/Remote_Desktop.htm
Once you've done that, go to the client and ...
If you're at home on your network, type your computer's IP address in the box.
If you're not at home, type in your external IP address in the box. It's on the PortForward homepage.
I think that's it.
Hope that helps.
@Home and Macless.That's kind of what the little triangle is there for!!!
But a minor point.
D'oh!I'll play with it more at work tomorrow. Thanks
let me see if I get it,
I would like to access over the internet my parents home pc so that I may assist them when they run into troubles.
Their pc is under a router. I would have to open the port 3389 on their router and then what?
Do I type in RDC the IP address that their router assigns them something + the port number ? Something like 192.168.1.2:3389 ?
I tried connecting to my wife's xp laptop from inside my home network and was very easy. I just not sure how to do it over the internet. please help.
I would like to access over the internet my parents home pc so that I may assist them when they run into troubles.
Their pc is under a router. I would have to open the port 3389 on their router and then what?
Do I type in RDC the IP address that their router assigns them something + the port number ? Something like 192.168.1.2:3389 ?
I tried connecting to my wife's xp laptop from inside my home network and was very easy. I just not sure how to do it over the internet. please help.
On their router, you set up port forwarding so that connections to port 3389 are routed to port 3389 on their home pc. Then you'd RDC to the public IP of the router itself.
If you have multiple Windows machines behind the same router, you can run the 2nd/3rd/4th... machines on alternate ports.
For example, you could run the 2nd machine on 23389. You'd need to go to the registry and edit:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\Winstations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber to 23389 (decimal)
and reboot. Set the router to pass 23389 to the ip:23389 of the 2nd machine.
From the client, open ip:23389 to start the window.