Bosco: Remote Desktop on the Cheap

It must be noted that though RDC does work well (I use it myself sometimes over a VPN over a GPRS connection) you can't use it to connect to an XP PC running XP Home, it will work with XP Professional (and Server versions of Windows) but won't work with XP Home, which most home PCs now come with.

As for Bosco (hand raised) looks good and I know I might be able to use this in my day job. Thanks

www.logmein.com best way to remote control any computer, the basic is free. i use this to control my Win Xp server from all over the world. i use RDC on the Mac to connect to the Xp server.

Oh, crap. I just re-RTFA'd and realized Bosco is free. So nevermind.

Not to plug my own site, but I just wrote a post the other day about how to get this sort of thing working using free software. Paying money for this just doesn't seem worth it, unless you're getting very fast response times from the paid products, which it sounds like you weren't getting from Bosco. Anyway, here's the How-To: http://thousandrobots.com/blog/archives/2005/11/how_to_control.php Using VNC on the server side (instead of a paid product) isn't complex at all. It's built into the Sharing system preferences panel now (as "Apple Remote Desktop"), and takes all of about 10 seconds to configure.

I second the vote for RDC if you only need to remotely connect to a Windows box. I have even used it in lieu of a KVM because I'm cheap (2 monitors on the mac and none for the PC). My only complaint is that sometimes when I copy and paste text from it to BBEdit or vice versa, it and BBEdit freeze. Also, whether text from Safari comes across as html or text seems random. Otherwise, it is very stable and uses well-defined ports so you can set up ssh port-forwarding. I've used it to connect to WinXP Pro, Win 2000, and Win Server 2003. You can copy the app multiple times and launch multiple instances of it to control lots of different computers, although I need to figure out how to change the app names because a bunch of "Remote Desktop Connection" icons in the dock and app switcher gets confusing.

Seems really nice! Now I got to use my old Dell too :)

There is also Chicken of the VNC, which rocks for free as well.

What's wrong with Microsoft's own Remote Desktop For Mac (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=remotedesktopclient) It's very easy to setup; just click on the remote desktop option on the windows machine. It's way faster than VNC; i know i use it everyday. And what's more it's free, free, free too. I know it's ms ware but really, it actually works like a charm.

I think you crashed their server.

Cool..! Could be what I need to see that windows box in the basement that Tivo makes me keep alive...! When is the TivoToGo Mac edition supposed to be coming..???