Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection - 2.0.1

When I copy a file from Windows to the Mac's shared drive, the file name has been converted to all lower case. I think it is a bug. Anybody has the same problem?

system environment :
- Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6 : all
- MS RDC 2.0.1, 2.0.2 : all

Sungsoo Kim

Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) is Microsoft's solution for remotely logging on to PCs running Windows XP and later. It works very well showing that Microsoft can develop quality software if they want to.

RDC works just like VNC with the adition of a few features, such as sound and the automatic mounting of host drives. To log on to a remote PC you need to be administrator or have specific access rights. RDC handles screen resolution, screen depth, keyboard mappings and all the other settings. Unlike VNC, you can copy and paste text between Windows running in RDC and Mac applications, often preserving formatting.

RDC obviously requires you to have a PC to log on to. I use it to log on to my work computer from my personal laptop, and for me it works great.

Well done MacBU.

I have connected gracefully to 10 terminal server but there is a one that do not want to accept the connection. When i connect with windows mrdp it works but not with mac mrdp.

i know that in windows reg a can delete two reg-keys to re-enable acces to the server.


mi question; is there a way to delete or reset mac mrdp session licence key.

I tink it haves sumting to be with the lease time allowed to the mrdp.

tanks all

This version of the beta is much, much better than the previous one. As well as offering more useful preferences, it runs significantly faster on my G4 Powerbook Leopard connecting via 100baseT to a Dell Pentium something or other running XP. Outlook particularly was ridiculously sluggish under the previous beta, and now responds like it does directly on the PC.

I'm wondering just how long this is going to remain in beta. Yes, it works, but the recent gap between previous beta expiry and new beta has made me re-think my usage of this app. I'm Mac-based, but admin a mixed Mac/Windows network (including Windows servers), so NEED RDC on a daily basis.

The recent beta expiry encouraged me to expunge all traces of MS RDC from my system and switch to CoRD, which is just as reliable, just as fast and has a better GUI - especially if you need to connect to large numbers of machines.

Unlike a lot of Mac folks, I'm not anti-Microsoft - I use and like a wide range of their products, but I think they've dropped the ball with RDC - it's taking an unfeasibly long time to update such a relatively minor application.