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CoRD - Cocoa Remote Desktop
cord.sourceforge.net — "CoRD is a remote desktop client for Mac OS X ported from the UNIX program rdesktop. It is a Universal Binary, and allows you to connect to multiple servers concurrently."
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- blueigloo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Awesome. Going to give this a try right now.
- shuffle, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51Excellent! I can't believe I have been CoRDless for this long!
- Fedge, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22Your comment is horrible . . . and worth a digg!
- pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Bah, you guys have no sense of humor.
- OneTrueDabe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The feature I miss most -- which so far I've only found in "krdc" -- is desktop scaling -- arbitrarily resizing your VNC/RDC client window and having your desktop scaled accordingly, with no scrollbars.
- supz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I see a list of current issues and future features, but nothing showing it's current features.
To anyone who has downloaded and used it: What makes this different from the Microsoft RDP client, other than (I'm assuming) being much faster (universal binary)?- thecodemonk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I was wondering the same...what makes this better than MS's current client? :P
- Veamon, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Because it's shiny! DUHHH
- JohnA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The biggest difference is that you can run multiple instances at the same time.
With the MSFT RDP client, if you want to connect to more than one server at a time, you literally need to copy the app to a different file name, and launch it. You have to do that with each simultaneous server you wish to monitor.
No fun having "Remote Desktop Client 1" through "Remote Desktop Client 9" running all at once. :-) - brentzilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Umm, the Universal Binary part would be the winning feature in my mind. Rosetta is not only slower but eats a lot more memory.
- jbekkema, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4The M$ RDC client handles multiple connections well if you use RDCMenu as well (no need to go copying it etc): http://www.xutils.com/rdcmenu/
- kiddailey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2jbekkema is right: RDCMenu is *very* handy if you use Microsoft's Remote Desktop Client. I'm biased though... I made one of the icons for the author :)
- catmistake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use RDC with RDCMenu. RDCMenu is Universal, but RDC isn't... however, the intels are so frickin fast it just doesn't matter that RDC is running in emulation. I've had connections to 14 remote computers simultaneously with no noticable delay from emulation.
That being said... I wish CoRD the best. - austindkelly, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1I would say get your self VNC, byfar the best RDP utility out there.
- blinkfink182, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Or you guys could just make a custom MMC console if you have adminpak.msi installed, but that's just me.
Start > Run
mmc
File > Add Snap-Ins > Add > Remote Desktop > Close > Ok
File > Save As...
Real tough... - JohnA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@blinkfink182
Did you actually read the original post? We're talking about Mac OS X, not Windows. Or maybe I am just having a hard time finding the start button on my dock. - greenagain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2RTFA bitches. This program is a port of rdesktop to OS X. rdesktop is a *nix remote desktop client used to connect to a Windows RDP server.
- bradleyland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I've always resented the fact that Windows gets remote support out of the box, but OS X users had to pay for it. Granted, Apple Remote Desktop includes MUCH more functionality than Windows RDP, but I think it would be nice for Apple to offer a reduced functionality version for free with the OS.
One of the primary drawbacks I face when recommending Apple computers to friends and customers who are not local is that I have no remote support option like RDP or Logmein.com.
I'm glad to see some alternatives coming along.- JetwingX, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4don't complain about Remote desktop not being included. Have you already forgotten that in 10.5 iChat will let you do that functionality for free as well?
- dvgraphics, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14OS X does have it out of the box- for the most part. In the Sharing Preference Pane, you'll see Apple Remote Desktop- if you configure that, you can then use any free VNC client to connect.
- colincornaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"don't complain about Remote desktop not being included. Have you already forgotten that in 10.5 iChat will let you do that functionality for free as well?"
That would be great if 10.5 was out. - boneznet01, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Yeah. Like VNC which is builtin with the ARD clients? Just type in a password and it works. Tunnel over ssh if you'd like the crypto.
- supz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The problem with the built in OS X VNC server is that it's a.) buggy as crap b.) a huge bandwidth hog.
Try connecting to it with UltraVNC using a low bandwidth profile, or try using TightVNC with a similarly low bandwidth profile, and the apple VNC server just craps out and dies. If you connect to it using a medium bandwidth profile, it works, but uses about 200k/sec and is laggy as hell.
I've tried using OSXvnc but couldn't get it working, though I admittedly didn't put much effort into trying to get it to work.
Another thing I may have to try is just compiling another VNC server from source, though I doubt there are any that support the OS X window server. - nopal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is not a Mac version of RDP, it's a way for a Mac to connect to a Windows machine running an RDP server.
- CMiYC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I'm glad to see some alternatives coming along."
I'm using OSXVnc right now. So there are already alternatives now, which are free. - bradleyland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ah. Unfortunately I posted from the road away from my Mac, so I hadn't had a chance to download it. I guess the whole "client" thing should have given it away.
My gripe regarding ARD still stands. - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use Chicken of the VNC on OS X, it seems to work pretty well though I'm not sure what the bandwith load looks like.
- SpencerFry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I downloaded this yesterday and it has worked great for me so far.
- CoRDS, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2aww man, why do they have to have the caps like that :(
- nakedcellist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I recently discovered this one, it performs well, is universal binary, allows for several concurrent connections (which the MS version only does if you copy the binary a few times) but it does not seem to work full screen. Great app.
- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3I'll stick with my VNC. At least VNC is documented.
- blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Windows remote desktop is for windows only, but it's WAY faster than VNC or any 'pure bitmap' transfer solution
- rongenre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Awesome -- MS rdesktop client's crap if you need to connect to more than one windows box [I need to hit a half dozen @ work ]. I've been using rdesktop w/ X, but this is nicer. Wish I could specify a login/password, but I guess that's in the works.
They should submit it to Darwinports though. - MacPPC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Im probably doing it wrong, I've been trying to connect to my other machine here at work using smb://10.87.130.xx but won't work. Can anyone give some directions?
- bbatsell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's not filesharing, so it doesn't use Samba (smb://). You need to enable Microsoft Terminal Services on the Windows host computer. Right-click "My Computer", hit "Properties", then click the "Remote" tab, then check "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer". Then simply input the IP address of the host computer into CoRD and then log in with your host's username and password.
- MacPPC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Awesome, thanks!
- supz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do you happen to work at a company that makes routing equipment and changed its company logo recently?
- coolant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is there a way to copy/paste to and from the server?
- kiddailey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, and that is the only feature keeping me from using it otherwise.
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1VNC can do copy and paste (works great). I usually use "Chicken of the VNC", but there are dozens of other clients to choose from that work.
too bad VNC is so much slower and bandwidth hungry than RDP. I like straight X11, it's quite fast (unless the app wants to preload a crap load of pixmaps). Of course X11 doesn't let you detach/reconnect. (there is xmove to do this, but it's hard to configure). NX over at http://nomachine.com/ but it's not entirely free, takes a bit of work to set up, and there is no OSX version.
I would like to see something simple like VNC, but with PDF and ECMAscript/JavaScript instead of pushing raw bitmaps. It would be possible to make something like this work transparently on X11 and OSX, I think it would likely be doable on Win32 (but I don't know for certain)
- nopal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1JetwingX: "don't complain about Remote desktop not being included. Have you already forgotten that in 10.5 iChat will let you do that functionality for free as well?"
It's not the same. At all. You're saying that the iChat screen sharing can be used for this type of remote control of a computer, but to do so, you'd have to leave iChat signed in and figure out how to get the remote instance to initiate a screen sharing session. Maybe you could consider this a workaround, but it's not a comparable solution. - bigpru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Remote desktop only comes with XP professional (~$300) which only like 5% of people I know have, so windows users aren't THAT blessed.
(-) Does copy and paste not work? I tried to bring some text from XP to Mac and it was no-go. That's the one thing that is bugging me.
(+) It didn't spawn the blank toolbar space in firefox, I won't miss that- blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Wow, only 5% of the people you know use a pirated copy? Or do they really pirate the home edition?
- bigpru, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1they don't know any better
- nirvdrum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0While only Pro allows arbitrary RDC sessions, all versions of XP support RDC via invitations. I have used this to help several XP Home people before and it works very well.
- robbyvalles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0this is great.
- nospam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1very nice. thanks.
- crossers, on 07/18/2008, -0/+0It is easy to use, fast, and free for anyone to use or modify.
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