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Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / April 2005RDC and Mac
I remotely control a MS Server 2003 box using RDC with my mac through VPN. It is definately a lot faster than VNC, but when I log-on as local administrator onto the server using RDC I cannot manage an application that runs on the server. Does anyone perhaps know of a way to set terminal services on the server so as to see the program running after logging onto the server? I'm gonna answer this but preface my answer with the fact that I don't know the answer. In the PC world, you would start Remote desktop thusly: mstsc /console servername The /console switch should connect you to the console session of a Windows Server 2003 machine (but not Windows 2000, nor XP.) What the analogous choice is on a Mac, I'm afraid I don't know--but if you know MacOS better than I do, perhaps you can work out how to pass such a parameter. >I remotely control a MS Server 2003 box using RDC with my mac through > VPN. It is definately a lot faster than VNC, but when I log-on as local > administrator onto the server using RDC I cannot manage an application > that runs on the server. Does anyone perhaps know of a way to set > terminal services on the server so as to see the program running after > logging onto the server? > I'm gonna answer this but preface my answer with the fact that I don't know > the answer. I also don't know the answer, but will also jump in. This *is* UseNet, after all... :^) > In the PC world, you would start Remote desktop thusly: > > mstsc /console servername On Windows you could also edit a saved connection file (using Notepad or another text editor) and add the line connect to console:i:1 On the Mac I know that the connection file is still an editable text file, but I have no idea whether that line accomplishes anything.  SignatureBubba Dave Pooser A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. If you want to connect to the console using the Mac RDC client you have to hold down the [command] key while clicking the connect button. Alternatively if you would like to configure a particular "shortcut" to connect to the console every time you can open up the file in your favorite text editor and add this line to the file: connect to console:i:1 > If you want to connect to the console using the Mac RDC client you have to > hold down the [command] key while clicking the connect button. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > connect to console:i:1 Thanks, Dave and Matt! Thanks for all the help, but trial and error once again teaches the ignorant, but persistant student. It is actually so easy once you know how, as following: I connect to the server via a VPN. I then start RDC and log-on using my VPN account instead of the local server administrator. And here is the kicker... All I then do is open Terminal Manager, connect to the local machine as administrator, and yeeeha, I am connected to the local machine and can see and work on all the programs running on the server. Another cool advantage is that nobody locally knows that I am connected, because the server will remain in the "This computer is locked" state. Also I must say it is pretty quick, and I only have a iBook G4. |
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