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Don't forget VNC
Authored by: clarkcb on Feb 20, '03 08:31:16PM

You can accomplish the same by installing and running a VNC server on your Windows machine (this works even if the Windows machine does not have Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Services) and a VNC client on your Mac. TightVNC is a nice server for Windows, and VNCDimension is a pretty good client for OS X. There also a client called VNCThing that I have not tried. Both of the clients are available from Apple's OS X downloads area under the Networking / Security category. TightVNC can be downloaded from tightvnc.com.



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Don't forget VNC
Authored by: kerouassady on Feb 20, '03 08:56:35PM

Actually, its not the same thing at all. Windows Terminal services establishes an actual user session under your login through the machine/domain. You are a user on the machine. It is as if you walked up to it and logged in. You get your Documents folder, your desktop, etc. VNC simply gives you remote control over whatever state the machine is in at the time. All you login with is a password. There aren't unique usernames. VNC is great for sysadmins but not for regular users. This is Microsoft's attempt at emulating the remote terminal functionality of XWindows, UNIX, etc. They, like Termical Services, give you your own space to work in. If a VNC server is configured to allow multiple people to login, then you're all fighting over mouse control of the same desktop while whoever is standing next to the actual server is wondering what the heck is going on.



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Don't forget VNC
Authored by: kerouassady on Feb 20, '03 09:01:07PM
Also, VNC is much slower that RDC. RDC can be somewhat pokey for me if the server is busy, like our web server (Win2K, I'm ashamed to say). I hope rdesktop is faster.

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