Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / August 2006

Yes it is possible, there are two approaches.

The easiest is to copy your remote desktop connection folder
application to an alternate folder.  You must actually copy it, not
create an alias.  For instance, you could create a new folder called
RDP connections. Create a subfolder called "some_connection_name", copy
the entire RDC application folder from your Applications folder into
the "some_connection_name" folder.

You can create connection-b, c .....z folders for more connections.
Inside each sub folder, rename the application itself to the connection
name of your choice, that way it will show up in the chooser selection
list with the connection name and the RDP icon when you have it active.

The other approach is to download and install Rdesktop.  This requires
X-Windows, you then launch it using either the command line or a script
something like:
tell application "Finder"
    launch application "X11"
end tell

set results to do shell script "cd ~; DISPLAY=:0.0;
 export DISPLAY; PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin; export PATH ;
 /opt/local/bin/rdesktop -a 16 -f someserver.somewhere.TLD &"

You can set up as many scripts as you want, changing the server
location.  You can then run multiple rdesktop sessions.

Found a great utility at http://www.xutils.com/programs.html called RDC
Menu... Use it daily to manage about 15 W2K3 machines from my G5.

Dan

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