How To: Access Windows from OS X (Remote Desktop for Mac)
Accessing Windows machines from your Mac can be really important. It provides you the ability to quickly access Microsoft products and functions without the need for virtualisation.
Microsoft Confusion
Microsoft provides a tool called Remote Desktop Client for Mac which provides this functionality. Unfortunately, this is still in beta and the current version has expired – with Microsoft promising a new version in May. This delay has caused much confusion in the Mac community, and personally I’ve found the tool to be quite buggy (yes I know its in beta).
CoRD to the Rescue
Thankfully, the open source project CoRD provides much the same functionality, including file and printer sharing between computers, and personally I think it has a far better user interface. The bookmark bar on the side is much more like other Mac Applications I use (CyberDuck for instance), and in general is much more Mac like:
Personally, I’d forget the Microsoft Beta for now and download CoRD today!
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
If you do not know the IP of Windows,it can not work. I am using Gooer Remote Service(http://www.gooer.com) and it works fine. It let me can remote access my host PC(windows) from OS X or Ubuntu.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:42 am
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