Due to changes in our firewall, a VPN is now required when doing this from off-campus. The on-campus computer must be left on and not in hibernation. On the machine you wish to remotely connect to: Go to System Preferences in the Apple menu at top left. At this point you'll need to enable remote access on your target PC.
For a Windows 8 machine, the fastest way to get this done is to search for "Allow remote access to your computer" and click on that when it comes up. You may need an administrator password to complete this step. Under the "System Properties" box you should see "Remote Desktop" and the button labeled "Allow remote connections to this computer" should be selected.
Next, you'll need to select the users who will be able to be accessed through the remote desktop connection. Now, search for "System" and click it when it appears. Turn off hibernation and sleep settings for the target PC, as you won't be able to access it remotely if it falls asleep. While still in "System," it's a good time to go ahead and get your full PC name if you don't already have it, as you'll need it to set up the connection.
Click on "Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings" to find the full PC name and write it down. Enabling a Windows 7 computer is a little different, but you can find out how to do that here. Head back to your Mac and click the "New" button at the top left of the Microsoft Remote Desktop screen. You'll be prompted to fill in quite a few fields. The first thing you'll need to input is the connection name. This is simply what you want to call the connection and it has no real bearing on the connection itself.
For example, you could call it "John's work computer," or "Jennifer's PC. I have a specific usage case - I work in a multiplatform environment in which I work on the Mac and on the PC. I don't want to keep changing physical keyboards, so despite the fact that the two physical machines are next to eachother beneath my desk, I use remote desktop to view and operate the PC while working on the Mac.
Since there are some operations that cannot be performed via RDP - attaching to a VPN being one of them - it would be nice if I could just leave the PC logged in and operate it via Remote Desktop at the same time. Now, I'm sure there really IS such a way, but the internet is not my friend in helping me find it. So properly-speaking, this probably a complaint about the service and not the client app, but the entire eco-system is failing me in small ways.
Also, while I appreciate the option that allows the Apple key to be interchangable with ctrl for edit operations and find, it doesn't seem to work consistently, and as everyone who has ever switched back and forth between the Mac and Windows knows, confusion over which meta key to use in editing will eventually cause brain damage and is likely to send hardware on ballistic journeys through windows not Windows.
Update: latest version now just resets over and over all day. It takes a good 30 seconds and sometimes I have to just disconnect the RDP and reconnect it in order to be able to work again. I really miss the old RDP versions here on the Mac that just worked all day long.
I still need this tool every day. Not sure why you keep breaking a tool that so many rely on daily. I get the spinning beachball- have to exit to the Mac, force quit MRD and restart it, then reconnect. I'm finding myself doing this at least 2 or 3 times per hour! I try to type slowly, but then end up getting really focused on my work and start moving faster.
If you're running macOS X Drive redirection is supported for remote resources, so that you can save files created with a remote application locally to your Mac.
The redirected folder is always your home directory displayed as a network drive in the remote session. In order to use this feature, the administrator needs to set the appropriate settings on the server. By default, the remote session will use the same keyboard locale as the OS you're running the client on. If your Mac is running an en-us OS, that will be used for the remote sessions as well. If the OS keyboard locale is not used, check the keyboard setting on the remote PC and change it manually.
Windows Server R2 introduced support for a new authentication method, Remote Desktop Gateway pluggable authentication and authorization, which provides more flexibility for custom authentication routines. You can now try this authentication model with the Mac client. Custom authentication and authorization models before Windows 8. Questions and comments are always welcome. However, please do NOT post a request for troubleshooting help by using the comment feature at the end of this article.
Instead, go to the Remote Desktop client forum and start a new thread.
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