RDP from OS X Lion to XP?

Feek · 10 Jan 2012 at 20:55

I need to RDP from my iMac running Lion to a system running XP SP3.

Is this possible?

If so, how?

Ta.

arty · 10 Jan 2012 at 21:00

Microsoft offer an official RDP client which is what I use at work. It is fully-featured but extremely flaky for me, unfortunately.

Another option is CoRD which is less fully-featured but used to be slightly more stable... if a bit buggy.

Neither are great options unfortunately. See how you get on

arty

marc2003 · 10 Jan 2012 at 21:01

a quick google found this:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client

arty said:
It is fully-featured but extremely flaky for me, unfortunately.

i hope that's payback for the truly awful software apple inflict on windows users.

slinxy · 10 Jan 2012 at 21:28

I have to use the microsoft rdp at work to remote into servers and clients and its the only thing that ever crashes on my mac..

IndieSchmindie · 10 Jan 2012 at 22:14

Cord is awesome but if it's the only server you'll ever RDP to, MSTSC might be better.

Feek · 10 Jan 2012 at 22:25

I've installed Cord but the only screen resolution I'm getting when I connect to the remote box is 1024x640 which is pretty rubbish.

/edit - Found the preferences, that's better.

This'll do nicely, thanks.