Connect to non-standard ports with MS Remote Desktop

Oct 14, '04 10:53:00AM

Contributed by: mkutny

If you have ever worked in an environment with multiple Windows servers to manage, you know how useful Microsoft's Remote Desktop, aka Terminal Server client, is. In a situation where you have to access a NAT-ed, remote site with multiple servers, having servers listen on ports other than the default (3389) is quite handy.

Unfortunately, Microsoft claims that "the Remote Desktop Connection Client for the Mac supports only port 3389. 3389 is the default port." I was frustrated with this until recently, when on a whim, I entered the port number preceded by a colon immediately after the IP address of the remote site (e.g., 10.10.10.10:3380). Voila! I can now access all of the servers, regardless of their port, using my Mac.

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