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Connect to Windows Terminal Servers via X11
Authored by: Anonymous on Feb 21, '03 01:30:24PM

M$ actually distributes a Mac OS X app that lets you do the same thing, without requiring VNC or X11. Just download Remote Desktop Connection it from http://www.microsoft.com/mac/DOWNLOAD/MISC/RDC.asp>

For this to work, the target machine be running Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Services, supported on XP Professional, 2000 Server, and NT Server 4.0.

The app works so well that I stopped using Virtual PC altogether: I just use RDC to connect to a Windows box for anything that I need to do in Windows. You can even cut and paste between RDC and Mac OS X.



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Connect to Windows Terminal Servers via X11
Authored by: legacyb4 on Feb 26, '03 02:25:34AM

MS's Remote Desktop Client is also easily passed over an SSH tunnel with the -L 3389:your.remote.windows.client:3389 parameter if you have a *Nix box running on the same network.

Either that or simply VPN in over PPTP although SSH is more elegant with less disruption to other network activities.



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