Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta)
Microsoft promised us some goodies this week, and they just delivered on that promise. The long awaited (at least by me) Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta) is now available for download. This is a beta, but in my limited testing it is much, much faster (as one might expect). New in this Beta, which expires on March 31, 2008 are:- Universal Binary (hurrah!)
- Works with Vista, and used the new Remote Desktop protocol
- Multiple session support (this is a big deal, though I can't actually figure out how to connect to more than one machine at a time)
- Better printer support, better UI
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Microsoft promised us some goodies this week, and they just delivered on that promise. The long awaited (at least by me) Remote Desktop...
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I need some on how to do capture screen pics and placing them in notepad all on the client using my MAC, this was easily done when I used a Windows machine to make the remote connection and doing a shift (or something) prt screen and then copying it into an open text file. Has anyone been able or can you discuss the key strokes which I can use to simulate this function using RDC and the MAC?
August 21 2007 at 12:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI haven't tried the new version yet, but the old version always allowed connecting to the console.
What you had to do was hold down Command when you click "Connect."
Where's the speed improvement people are talking about? On my machine (Original 1.6ghz G5 ppc) this version is way slower than the last one. My mouse also does mini freezes every 1 sec the screen is refreshed. I tried messing with all the display settings with no luck. Terrible update for me. I'll be going back to the old one or trying out Cord.
E.
get something for free -> wine
just save a new session with no ip/servername, its called then Default.. then run the Default.rdp session to create a new session...
#17: Oh yes, silly meâI forgot that BOMArchiveHelper can extract pax archives.
Yes, Pacifist can (optionallyâit's on by default, though) preserve ownership, though you don't actually need to for RDC. There really isn't any reason for this to be a .pkgâa drag and drop .app distribution would have worked just fine.
To extract files from a package using only the Finder, look inside it - in Contents there will be a file called Archive.pax.gz. Copy this file out of the package, then double click on it. You'll end up with two new items - Archive.pax and a folder called Archive, which contains the files that Installer will install.
Note that this method won't preserve file ownership, whereas Pacifist probably will (I have never used it, but since it's shareware I'd imagine it would handle things like that - it'd be a pretty poor deal otherwise).
Sam
Kishen: Until CoRD opens .rdp files it is useless for many of us.
As for this new release, it still does not support the time zone setting on the host server--it defaults to GMT. This is the biggest (MS acknowledged) bug in RDP 1.0.3 and it's astounting that it's not fixed yet in Beta 2.0.
2.0 is also not honoring the resolution sizes specified in .rdp files as 1.0.3 did, so this is a step backwards. Multiple sessions is a good step, but I never needed that and there had been 3rd party solution for that under 1.0.3.
Not bad, significantly better than the previous version, but still lacking in speed and options compared to running rdesktop (which beats out CoRD for speed, but requires you have X11 and either compile or use TSclientX.) I do have one big question: why can't I set custom resolutions?
In the end it's still good to see Microsoft making an effort to update RDC for OS X, and it works fine for a quick solution. Though not as fast as CoRD, I'm happy with either if I can't have rdesktop (I hope X11 becomes default on all installs one day.)
Any one else notice that it DOESN'T support Vista Home Basic or Home Premium?
Any one try it on Vista Home Basic or Home Premium? Does it work?
I was expecting there to be support for remote apps. Maybe later?
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