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cprofitt
February 7th, 2008, 08:07 PM
I have the Terminal Server Client for remote control of the Windows boxes I have... is there any client on the PC side that allows you to connect to a Mac other than VNC?

I know the Macs have RDP enabled... but the TS Client doesn't connect to them.

Thanks

vgrisham
February 19th, 2008, 08:06 PM
I have the Terminal Server Client for remote control of the Windows boxes I have... is there any client on the PC side that allows you to connect to a Mac other than VNC?

I know the Macs have RDP enabled... but the TS Client doesn't connect to them.

Thanks

Bump. I'd like to know this too.

thatswhatshesaid
February 28th, 2008, 10:03 PM
Why is VNC not an option? Just curious...

DouglasAWh
March 4th, 2008, 04:44 AM
Apple has RDP? I thought they did ARP? Can someone give a citation for that?

cprofitt
March 4th, 2008, 07:23 PM
citation? (http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/)

or

citation? (http://www.apple.com/support/remotedesktop/)

and according to this (http://images.apple.com/remotedesktop/pdf/ARD31_TO.pdf) documentation the client portion is pre-installed.

Apple, of course, does not discuss using anything other than their ARD Administration product for accessing the RD client... so that is why I was asking.

Is the built-in client using VNC? RDP? RDPv5? Some other protocol?

DouglasAWh
March 4th, 2008, 07:31 PM
Is the built-in client using VNC? RDP? RDPv5? Some other protocol?

ARD was the protocol, but now it runs on VNC.

"On June 21, 2004 Apple announced Apple Remote Desktop 2 (released in July), which was designed to use the VNC protocol instead of Apple's original ARD protocol." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_remote_desktop

As far as I can tell, your "citations" say nothing about using RDP. Maybe I'm missing something?

Perhaps this is the problem I am having "On October 18, 2007 Apple released version 3.2 which introduced Mac OS X Leopard support and compatibility for third party VNC viewers and servers."

Perhaps the built in version will not do other VNC viewers.

cprofitt
March 5th, 2008, 06:18 AM
As far as I can tell, your "citations" say nothing about using RDP. Maybe I'm missing something?

They don't say which protocol, but they use the words 'remote desktop' an awful lot. If I recall the preferences on the Mac use the terminology remote desktop as well... perhaps they are just obfuscating the fact that they are using VNC? I will give VNC a shot tomorrow after I build the Altiris server.

wheredidrealitygo
March 31st, 2008, 06:47 PM
Sorry to bring up an old thread, but VNC definitely is the protocol Macs use.

Has anyone been able to find a way to connect without using 'full' or 'millions of colours' when connecting to a Mac?

If I use xvnc4viewer (on my Eee or Ubuntu) to connect to my Mac, it (the Mac) will only accept connections that have full color, which is VERY slow over the internet, and only barely acceptable on the local network, especially on the Eee.

DouglasAWh
April 21st, 2008, 10:07 PM
This is slightly off topic, so if people want me to start a new thread I'd be happy to, but my OS X remote administration woes have sprung up again:

http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2006-August/055838.html



Vihan,

There is not, nor has there ever been, an RFB version 3.889. Valid protocol
version numbers are 3.3, 3.7, 3.8 and 4.0.

This appears to be a bug in Apple Remote Desktop. You should be able to
contact Apple for support for their product.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


However, the screenshot at http://flickr.com/photos/dawhitfield/2432373526/sizes/o/

would suggest otherwise. Does anybody know a work around?

THANKS!