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Mac OS X: lack of a remote-desktop solution. (Able to connect TO a Mac, from any other computer via RDP). I can go from Windows to Linux, Linux to Windows, an
by roadnottaken 16y ago
Mac OS X: lack of a remote-desktop solution.
(Able to connect TO a Mac, from any other computer via RDP).
I can go from Windows to Linux, Linux to Windows, and Mac to Windows/Linux... but no way to connect TO my OSX box except from another Mac. Why?
- marssaxman 16y agoDoes it have to be RDP? I regularly VNC into a headless Mac mini using nothing but the built in VNC client and server.
- konad 16y agoOSX comes with remote desktop, it's in System preferences, sharing .., remote desktop (I think). I don't have osx available to get the exact words. It's just VNC. It also has an SSH server in the same section so you can tunnel through securely.
- roadnottaken 16y agoWow, thanks. I can't believe I didn't know that. I've only had a Mac for a few months.... Thanks!!!
- roadnottaken 16y agoFWIW, after trying VNC on OSX (via Linux and Win7) I have to give Microsoft credit for their RDP implementation. It kick's VNC's ass for speed and usability -- no contest. Still, it's nice to know how to do this on Macs.
- konad 16y agoThe VNC implementation on OSX is particularly poor. It crashes and I have to manually restart it. On Linux the VNC is an X client so one can have multiple instances running each exposing with their own graphical shell. Does Windows RDP do that ? (I don't know). TightVNC works the best with low speed networks, it uses JPEG encoding too. BTW. is is also against the Windows EULA to use VNC server on it !