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Remote Desktop Clients
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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.
Chicken of the VNC works well as a client to most VNC servers, such as those you'd install on Windows.
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.
Apparently now PCAnywhere supports OS X.
nadyne said:
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.
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.
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.
*** slaps forehead ***nadyne said:
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?
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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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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balamw said:
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).