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Remote desktop to Windows from Mac

There is no better client. Primarily because Microsoft does not allow for there to be other clients. I suspect that after the first of the year you'll see an update for RDC (Mac) to coincide with Office 13 (or whatever it is called) and Vista and Leopard.

TEG
 
VNC works cross platform, and is free. Used it for many years from Mac to Win. Also used it a home, tunneling through a Win2K PC using VPN (the type of VPN was not available for Mac, at the time).

Make sure to set VNC server on the Win machine to start on boot, in case you need to remotely restart the Windows machine.

"Chicken-of-the-VNC" seems to be a nice client on Mac.
 
gr8tfly said:
VNC works cross platform, and is free. Used it for many years from Mac to Win. Also used it a home, tunneling through a Win2K PC using VPN (the type of VPN was not available for Mac, at the time).

Make sure to set VNC server on the Win machine to start on boot, in case you need to remotely restart the Windows machine.

"Chicken-of-the-VNC" seems to be a nice client on Mac.
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Well, that is not an option as the WINDOWS machine are my Universities box and they dont have VNC installed on it. Only windows remote desktop so I guess my best option is to download the M$ one :)
 
http://www.rdesktop.org/ works well. I have run both it and MS's RDC on my Mac, and I use rdesktop on Linux. The only thing that might put you off about rdesktop is, it's command line so you need to go into Terminal. I find it very stable, but if I recall correctly about MS RDC, it has the ability to access your local HD from the Windows machine but rdesktop doesn't support that.

Also, compiling the source on your Intel Mac means you automatically get a native Intel version.

One neat thing about rdesktop is that (apparently - I haven't done it) you can run Windows apps rootless, ie. outside of a Windows window, if you install Seamless RDP on your Windows machine.
 
acidity said:
As the website says its only PowerPC based which does run on my Intel MacBook but I always get the feeling that PowerPC based softwares are always slow when running through Rapshody.
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I think you mean Rosetta, not Rhapsody. ;) And yes, PPC apps are of course slower since they're being emulated in a sense, but since it doesn't sound like you have much control over the Windows box, MS RDC is the best option.
 
I use MS RDC on an intel Mac. It takes quite a few bounces when I first launch it, but once it starts the delays across the network is a bigger bottleneck. I would not worry about it.
 
I did some more research and found this - TSClientX which combines a frontend for rdesktop with seamlessrdp, although I can't get seamlessrdp to work, for some reason.

It does actually seem to be faster than Microsoft's RDC.

You need X11 installed though.
 
plinden, thank you so much. I've been looking for an OS X rdesktop implementation, but haven't recently taken the initiative. SeamlessRDP was a bit finicky (for instance, you don't use quotes like the README would suggest).

And, of course, the seamlessrdp folder has to be put on the target Windows PC. Otherwise it has STUNNING results (being able to have the remote machine's task manager running on my Mac? Beautiful.). You just made my day. It's not without its bugs, but still...

rdesktop was the one thing I missed from my Linux usage. I've been going all this time thinking I was without... :(
 
Tried both M$ RDC and Cord....not much difference so I am not sure whom to tilt with...anyway...but they both have one issue....

I just cant right click on my windows desktop now? Ctrl+Mouse dosnt work....which key should I enter for getting the right click on Windows? Do I have to setup or its not possible?

And yeah I mean Rosetta...not Rhapsody....just got confused with the names :p
 
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