Remote Desktop Mac To PC (Windows)

I picked up the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac last week and immediately thought ‘where have you been all my life’.

Connecting to the PC (or any number of PC’s) is a breeze, entering the machine name or IP address on the network, you’re pretty much good to go. The majority of my remote desktop work comes with managing an Apache install on a windows box in the office. Since I upgraded the RAM in my Macbook Pro a few months back I’ve been doing the majority of my office work on the laptop. Yet every time I want to make changes on the server I’m logging into another PC, remoting into the server PC (no physical display unit) and then going back to the Mac.

Not any more says he.

It is a beta product, and it does expire at the end of next March but it does exactly what it says on the tin and means I’m doing less moving around the office to get simple server changes done.

The DMG installer is about 4mb, give it a whirl if you’re a Mac user looking for a remote desktop connection to a Windows based PC.

2 Comments

  1. John December 12, 2007 at 4:58 pm

    Or you could slap a copy of Ubuntu on there and look after the server over ssh.

  2. Michele December 12, 2007 at 6:21 pm

    Ken

    It works well – better than the tsclient for Ubuntu 🙂

    Michele

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