Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / May 2007

There is no "RDC" for Macs. Three ways to go about it.

ARD - Apple Remote Desktop which is Apple's remote administration utility.
You can also view it, control it or remotely apply and manage the
workstation/server. Kind of like MMC. It uses VNC for display and ssh for
terminal access amongst other protocols.

VNC - Every Mac OS X installation has built in a ARD client that can be
turned on. Since ARD uses VNC for the remote display you can also allow VNC
clients to view and or control a Mac OS X workstation/server. You can turn
it on with a password request, no password request, authorization from user
(or not), view & control or view only.

X11 - You can add another X11 display that uses remote connections to
display the UI on another workstation. I don't have the isntructions for it
for Mac OS X. Somewhere I have them for Gnome on AIX. Maybe it's similar.

The last choice would be the fastest connection since you're porting the
display right over TCP/IP without the need to run a VNC server. The VNC
connections on Mac OS X isn't terribly fast. It looks like a lot of
dithering is going on or it's using 256 colors.

Great product. DO you have the server side for the Mac. To allow for
Windows PC Clients to remote connect to the MAC desktop machine. I
really think this is the more important aspect. Well, for me at
least ;) But the reason being that I have some mac computers in my
network at my office which is predominately PC with windows XP of
course. And I would like to remote connect to these mac units from my
windows XP platform to administer them. Rather than walking 10 feet
and logging in and dealing with it locally. I dont see much use for
advance users to want to remote desktop the other way around, unless
they use a mac predominately. This product I just found or shoudl i
say stumbled upon. And its great for the mac side, so TWO THUMBS UP,
but is there one for the PC user to connect to the Mac or are there
plans for one?

thank you

Could you email me at joshb@nichiai.com thank you