Microsoft, please fix Remote Desktop Connection for Mac

Did you guys see the comment about making a copy of Remote Desktop. This has nothing to do with Microsoft. If you want to run multiple instances of a program on a Mac from the GUI, you have to make multiple copies of the executable. Just pick up the Remote Desktop app, hold down the copy key and drop it. You now have two instances of the remote desktop app that you can run at the same. If you want three, just do it again and so on.

I find Remote Desktop Connection often disconnects randomly, and then refuses to reconnect (while CoRD etc still works fine). This is annoying!

Hey again, well there was no way I could not come back here and give a quick review of CoRD which I could summarize into one word:

SUPURB (I have no idea if i spelled it right...and dont really care)

Seriously, I was/am blown away...I was not expecting it to be this good.

On a seperate note, does anyone know if there exist a great front end for SSH? I've now got almost a thousand UNIX'ish boxes to administrate (most of the smoothies and asterisk boxes) and well over 200 Cisco bricks to manage and I sure would love a slick SSH front-end that would allow me all of the luxuries of bookmarks, profiles, ect. The closest thing I've found is Remotely Anywhere's Admin console.

Ras, please do not take this the wrong way but your "level of usage and understanding" of this converstaion is an order of magnitued from where it should be. But to answer your questions, Windows XP Pro is what we call a "Multi-User, SINGLE SESSION Client", Windows NT Server 4 Terminal Server, Windows 2000 Server with Terminal Services, and Windows 2003 Server with Terminal Services are what we call "Multi-User, Multi-Session Servers". So as you can see, XP Pro only supports a "Single Session" which explains what your experiencing and that it is operating as designed. Mark my words, there is only ONE way to accomplish what you desire and it cost $300 for a 3 "session license"... and no, I am not affiliated with them in anyway, in fact I am furious with them for their licensing model...anyway, the product is called WinConnect XP Server I think and the site is www.thinsoftinc.com.

I have recently tried the Remote Desktop Connection (RDN) from MS site, it works fine and I can actually view and use my kids XP on my Mac. However, when I log to my kids PC their display gets locked, and when they log in, I lose connection. In other words only when of us can view the XP display.

Could anyone please tell me how can I monitor my kids XP display via RDC when their on the net , without them knowing, form my OS X Mac?

Alex, ALT-Tab'ing does work for me within a RDC session -- am I not understanding what you are trying to do? When I have multiple RDC sessions running (see my above about making several copies of the RDC app and giving them all different names), Command-Tab gets me from session to session, and Alt(really, the Option key)-Tab gets me from application to application within a session.

Doesn't it bother you that RDC lets you specify a bunch of settings before connecting, then won't even show you those settings once you're connected? If you're an occasional RDC user (like me) and you forget the setup for right-click (like me), you have to disconnect and re-launch just to see the stupid settings.

How about SSL? Bill can you hear me? Listen up, we need M$ RDC for OS X to support SECURE Connections. Anyone know how to get it to connect to Windows 2003 servers that are running secure SSL remote connections? I have to RDC to another windows box from my mac, then remote (ssl) from that box to the servers? Great! I still need 2 boxes if I don't use my intel mac with XP on it. You go Bill, keep slowly stopping making apps for the mac, don't worry in a few years Google will take your place and we will all be happy to see you go.

Please, please fix copy and paste! On the Win 2003 server I use most, copying even a small bit of text sometimes locks up RDC for minutes. Other times it works fine. MS has addressed this somewhat; it used to kill RDC entirely, now it just knocks it senseless for a bit.

Copy and paste to and from remote servers is a great feature even so. I think only some versions of Windows Server support it, or maybe it's configurable. Copying a bunch of stuff out of Access and pasting it into Mac Excel has been a quick-and-dirty lifesaver for me.

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I too have many annoyances with RDC. I will throw onto the pile

We should have an option to allow it to take over alt-tabbing. So when in focus an alt-tab is sent to the remote machine. This could be accomplished through an ADDITIONAL key, or to tab out of RDC you have to hit an additional key. Either way it would make my life much easier.

The clipboard support is ok. Sometimes it just doesn't work to cut and paste and I don't know why, and sometimes it works flawlessly. I'd love to be able to actually paste images though. No, not even that is necessary. I'd like to be able to take screencaps within the RDC (as if I'm sitting at the machine) and paste them within the RDC. Sure image pasting back and forth would be nice (it works in windows->windows RDC,) but just having the functionality available internal to the connection would be handy too.