PC To Mac With Remote Desktop

Is there a program or will remote desktop work for me to install on my PC at home so i can remotely control my Mac Mini at work.

But in order to use VNC, you have to set your Mac to allow it - System Preferences-->Sharing-->Services-->Apple Remote Desktop-->Access Priveleges... --> check mark "VNC viewers may control screen with password" and add a password.
You may also need to have ports opened or forwarded in your router/firewall, but that is beyond the scope of this-- it depends on the setup you're using, and you're best off asking the Network Admin about that, or searching for VNC setup instructions with your particular firewall/router.

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    It's impressive how quickly Apple removed my post because of its tone. I hope they respond with equal speed and verve to my concerns.
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  • How do I simulate a right-click in Windows when connected with Remote Desktop 8.0 for Mac OS X?

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    In order to make use of the right-click inside an open session you have three options:
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    Extracted from "Remote desktop Client on Mac: FAQ"
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn473006.aspx

  • Trouble with Remote Desktop Connection to work PC

    Note that I am trying to log into my work PC from my mac at home. My company recently announced we could log in from home with a mac into our work PC. they can't get it to work so I thought I'd try here. We use a mobile site on Safari to obtain a network connection - it launches a program called network connection and I appear to have that network connection (although very little data is being sent and received). I am then supposed to launch a program called Remote Desktop Connection (this program was installed from steps I ran through the first time I logged in through the mobile site, it is version 1.0.3), but when I do, it will not connect and the error message is that remote connection is not enabled, network is too busy, etc). However, the guys at the support desk using PCs can log into my work computer. The only info that's mandatory to input on the Remote Desktop Connection is my work computer name. I don't think this is the issue, because if I purposefully use an incorrect name for my work computer, the error message is different, stating it can't find my (work) computer. I also installed the most recent version of Java for 10.3.x The only issues I can think of are a) this won't work with 10.3.9, although I doubt this is it as the Remote Desktop Connection program appears a few years old, OR there is some firewall issue on my mac. I doubt that this is it, as I assume the mac's firewall protections are to prevent others from remotely logging into my mac, not prevent me from using my mac to remotely log into my work PC. Also, I don't use any third party firewall or other protection stuff on my mac other than whatever comes stock. if you've read this far, thanks, and any comments appreciated! am trying to log in using my dual 1.8 g5 with 1.5g memory using 10.3.9

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    I had problems at first logging in as well. It was acting as if my password was wrong, but I knew that wasn't the case. I finally typed the password in the UserName area and found the problem!
    I had two special Characters followed by a capital letter. For instance !@Axxxxxxxx. When I typed the password, I would push and hold the 'shift' key for the first three letters. When typing that in the "user name" field, it showed as !2axxxxxxx. You have to release the 'shift' key and repress it for each letter.
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  • Novell login not available with remote desktop on windows 7

    Installed Novell Client 2 SP3 for Windows Server 2012 on my terminal server. When I log in from Windows XP to that terminal server I am getting an option to login with Novell Client. On Windows 7 however I only can logon to the server. What am I missing here?

    djaquays <[email protected]> wrote:
    > Mostly, that MS RDP for Mac ignores the authentication level:i:0 option
    > in an RDP file and there's no GUI equivalent to force legacy
    > authentication.
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    a new default mechanism which requires Windows credentials for
    authorizing you to create an RDP connection to the Windows Server
    machine "at all."
    Unfortunately Windows Server 2008 and later don't permit you to turn
    NLA completely off. You can configure the Windows Server to always
    require NLA, which means pre-MSTSC 6.x terminal clients will be unable
    to connect. Or you can configure the Windows Server to "not require
    NLA" ("Allow connections from computers running any version or Remote
    Desktop"), but this still means Windows Server will use NLA if the
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    configuring the terminal server to "not require NLA."
    Once you have "Allow connections from computers running any version or
    Remote Desktop" set on the Windows Server, and
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    connection can be established without first having to supply NLA
    credentials, and the first thing the MSTSC client user will experience
    is the full normal credential provider-based login experience just
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    Note that if you do leave NLA enabled and supply NLA credentials
    during the MSTSC connection attempt, after successfully using those
    credentials to authorize creation of the RDP connection, the MSTSC
    client will /also/ default to using the NLA credentials as default
    credentials to attempt logging on with within the terminal session
    itself. In other words, if you successfully supply NLA credentials,
    by default you also become logged in on the terminal session and go
    straight to the desktop of the Windows user account specified in the
    NLA credentials. So even though "NLA credentials" and "whom I will
    logon as within the terminal session" are two separate things, by
    default the MSTSC client tries to use the same credentials for both.
    But it's not that the NLA credentials "must" be used for logging in on
    the terminal session; that's simply the default behavior. If you
    leave NLA enabled on the Server 2008 or later terminal server, after
    NLA credentials are successfully used to authorize creation of an RDP
    connection, if you wanted to instead be prompted within the terminal
    session with the normal credential provider login experience, enable
    the "Always prompt for password" on the Windows Server 2008 or later
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    (On the Server 2008 or later machine, under "Administrative Tools"
    find the "Remote Desktop Services" group and launch the "Remote
    Desktop Session Host Configuration" console. Highlight/select the
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    On Settings" tab elect "Always prompt for password".)
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    a Macintosh-based client which doesn't allow enablecredsspsupport:i:0
    / authentication level:i:0." You would leave NLA enabled on the
    Server 2012 machine, but enable "Always prompt for password" in the
    RPC-Tcp connection properties on the Server 2012 machine. Such that
    after NLA authentication was performed and Windows allowed creation of
    the terminal session, instead of immediately also attempting to login
    within the terminal session as the Windows account specified in the
    NLA credentials, Windows will instead present the normal interactive
    credential provider login experience to allow the user to specify whom
    they want to login as.
    Finally, note that everything described above applies even to a
    Windows Server and Windows client workstation that do /not/ have the
    Novell Client for Windows installed. The same mechanisms remain in
    effect even once the Novell Client is installed; the presence of the
    Novell Client just changes what credential providers would be used or
    presented within the terminal session once the terminal session was
    allowed to be created. The fact that NLA is required by default and
    requires valid Windows credentials in order to authorize an RDP
    connection is still the same, regardless of whether the Novell Client
    is present or not.
    Alan Adams
    Novell Client CPR Group
    [email protected]
    Novell
    Making IT Work As One
    www.novell.com
    Upgrade to OES Community
    http://www.novell.com/communities/co.../upgradetooes/

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