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CoRD and RDC Menu
Some people complain about things, whilst others go about trying to fix them. Commenters on my last RDC post have pointed out a few things that will make my life easier (one I knew of, the other I did not).First off, Movieboy suggests RDC Menu, a menubar application that lets you open multiple instances of MS's RDC client quickly and efficiently. This is still more of a hack than I would like, but it sure does make the hack easier to do.
Jean-Francois reminds me of CoRD, a Cocoa variant of rdesktop (I don't want to run things in X11, call me old fashioned). CoRD looks very promising as it has the lickable look of a Cocoa application, as well as supporting concurrent connections to servers in one window (sweet). Keep in mind that CoRD is only a 0.2 release though, so I'm not sure if I can recommend it for mission critical purposes.
Read on for some CoRD screenshots.
Here is the window that you are presented with when you launch CoRD:
That drop down is how you navigate from one connection to the next. I think a drawer, or an iTunes like pane would be more appropriate (so you can see all the connections in one easy place), but I'll take what I can get at this point.
And here are the options that CoRD gives you:
Not too shabby at all. Oh, and the red error doesn't show up by default, I was messing around with some things.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Zack Kitzmiller said 3:52PM on 10-10-2006
live should be life.
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Scott McNulty said 3:56PM on 10-10-2006
Thanks, I fixed it.
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Pmatt said 4:37PM on 10-10-2006
I just got my first Mac (a MacBook Pro) since my original 1984 Mac, and I immediately noticed that RDC was a bit lame. In addition to the multiple instances issue, I find it noticebly slow. There is a slight keystroke lag on even the fastest connections.
However, once I installed Parallels, I just started running the actual Windows RDC there. It works way better. If you need to copy a file I think you have to copy it first to the Parallels PC and then to the remote PC -- that is the only downside so far (and maybe there is a workaround for that?).
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Aron T said 6:34PM on 10-10-2006
@Pmatt
If you set up parallels with a virtual storage drive and point it to your user folder (or whatever) the Parallels PC will pick up an extra "drive" linking to those files.
If you want to take it further you can have Windows re-map its "My Documents" folder to that location for some real, juicy file-sharing goodness.
=aron=
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Virgo said 9:18AM on 10-11-2006
Excuse, but rdesktop is better than RDP (CoRD).
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