A Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) lets you connect to a remote computer on a corporate network from anywhere on the Internet. You can create and manage your gateways in the preferences of the app or while setting up a new desktop connection. To set up a new gateway in preferences: In the Connection Center, select Preferences Gateways. Connecting to Windows 10 from macOS over Remote Desktop. Microsoft provides a native remote desktop client for the macOS, which you can download from the App Store. The interface is basic but easy.
I use my Mac connected to a remote server (Windows 2008) using Microsoft Remote Desktop Beta, and in the Windows 2008, there is a virtual machine on it, I use the Xshell connected to the VM. But when I want to paste some code, the shortcut key is Shift + Insert, however on the Mac there is no Insert key. Specifically, do you mean to remotely control a Mac OS X machine? Are you on a local LAN or over the internet? I use the built in VNC server on Mac (System Preferences Sharing Remote Management Computer Settings. VNC Viewers may control screen with this password) and from Windows, Linux, or w/e I use a VNC client such as Tight VNC on Windows or vnc4viewer on Ubuntu.
4. Vine Server
Vine Server, previously known as OSXvnc, is a free VNC server for Apple computer offered by TestPlant for free. You can use other VNC viewers to connect to the Vine server but using their shareware $35 Vine Viewer enables an additional feature which is transferring files via copy and paste.
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Mac OS X actually comes with a built-in remote management feature that allows other computers on the local network to access the Apple computer using the Apple Remote Desktop which we mentioned earlier. However, there is a setting where you can allow third party VNC viewers to connect and control the Apple computer. First click on the System Preferences icon at the Dock and click on Sharing. Click on the checkbox for the Remote Management to turn on the service.
Click on Computer Settings button. Tick on the 'VNC viewers may control screen with password' and type in a password. Click OK to save the changes. Optionally you can click on the Options button to configure the access permissions. Portable hard drive storage capacity.
Do take note that the Remote Management feature in Mac OS X uses port 5900 which would conflict with the default port used by RealVNC server or Vine server if both service are enabled at the same time. You can either fix this by enabling only one service at a time or change the port usage on RealVNC or Vine server.
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Can I use softwares like Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver etc (which are in MAC) from Windows system if the windows system doesn't have the same softwares?
ReplyIf the OSX commuter has remote management enabled, what client does the Windows computer need to run to connect to it?
ReplyLogmein Free isn't completely free anymore. You can buy an account, and for IT people, you can buy Logmein Central, and then tie a couple of Logmein Pro pay-for machines to the account (easy). Then you are given logmein free subscriptions you can then tie into the account. If the remote access is going to give you an hourly rate or save you time (and time is money) then it is WORTH buying the annual subscription.
The thing that has always been an issue for me is Logmein wants to boast about their ability to stream the remote desktop as HD, and frankly that is just bells and whistles to me. That requires WAY more bandwidth, and is pointless in most cases. The GREAT thing about logmein, even over their join.me product, is you can cut back the color quality or even make it black and white. This SIGNIFICANTLY speeds up the remote session to make sure things work right. Join.me is a $100/yr subscription, to compete with their enterprise version rescue, but again the quality of the remote session is simply limiting and time wasting for the average IT guy who needs to help the user.
More to the point of Logmein Pro, you can actually perform secure file transfers, and monitor the system in a dashboard. The Dashboard for pro subscriptions ALSO gives you things like the top fifteen running processes, all scheduled tasks, the most current 15 lines of the event viewer log, etc. You can perform various levels of remote boot, and even utilize a scripting type offering called one to many.
It is incredibly powerful, and COMPLETELY worth the cost of the annual subscriptions.
(I do NOT work for Logmein, just an IT consultant.)
Thank you very much. Used realvnc viewer on win 7 64bit, to connect to a mac laptop on OS X Mavericks.
ReplyI was using the built in vnc server for osx, but with the last 10.8.5 update my connection got a lot of lag. I updated my vnc viewers to the latest but that didn't help. I finally downloaded the vine vnc server ( turned off the osx vnc server ) and bingo problem solved. Thanks for the article, it was a great help.
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Using the Windows Hotkey in Remote Desktop on OS X
I spend a lot of my day in Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for Mac OS X (RDC). Normally when managing Windows servers I use WIN-R to pull up the 'Run' command and WIN-E to open Explorer windows. On the Mac, this usually equates to ⌘-R or ⌘-E. While this works great in the VMware vSphere Client or Parallels, it doesn't work in RDC.
To make it work in RDC, open up the Preferences window and click on the Keyboard tab. Double-click on 'Windows Start Key' to change it from option-F1 to the command key (⌘). You'll have to close and reload the RDC software for the change to take effect.
The downside to this change is that you won't be able to use the command key for any hotkeys in the RDC app. For example, ⌘-Q will no longer quit RDC. Fortunately ⌘-C, ⌘-X, and ⌘-V will still perform the copy, cut and paste functions. Windows mouse macro.
If you want to use the hotkey to quit RDC, you'll need to map a different key combination to the Quit RDC command. In the example below, I use option-command-q.
Unfortunately if you have a lot of RDC settings files (I usually have one for each server), you'll need to edit each of these files to apply the change. Fortunately these files are in XML format, so it's an easy Find and Replace task.
I know I could've used the command line to do this, but I cheated and used Textmate. Create a new project file in Textmate and drag all of the *.rdp files into the project pane. Next click Edit…Find…Find in Project… The RegEx below should do the trick. I'd suggest doing a single replace before clicking on the Replace All button. To do this, perform the find, then select the line item and click on Replace Selected.
