Remote Desktop on the Mac
I ran into some issues this past week using VMWare
Fusion, it wasn’t issues with VMWare, it was an issue
with our companies security software and an expired
certificate I couldn’t get to install due to a script
never running when I logged on using VMWare. To
resolve this issue I have stopped using VMWare for
the time being and have decided to remote into my
work machine. Microsoft makes a version of their
remote desktop client for
the Mac, so I decided to give that a try. The
lag on the connection was awful. I would be
typing and the letters were always a step
behind. This is tolerable for a quick task, but
not to sit there all day coding. I decided to
check out other options and came upon a free
tool called CoRD, which works great.
Connecting to my work machine is fast, and even
though there is the occasional lag, it was
nothing near what I was experiencing on
Microsoft RDC. I spent all day yesterday coding
with no issue. I highly recommend CoRD for
anyone needing to remote into a Windows machine.
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