This tutorial will guide you in enabling Remote Desktop in Vista, and then connecting to Vista from your Mac. Using Remote Desktop you can completely control your Vista PC, from your Mac.
- In Vista, open your Control Panel and select System and Maintenance.
- Now select System
- From the panel on the left, click Remote settings.
- The System Properties window should open, with the Remote tab displayed.
- Place a check in the box labeled Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop (less secure). Unless you’ve set Vista to “never sleep” in the Power Options, you’ll get a little pop-up telling you that when your Vista PC is asleep, users can’t connect to it. Click OK.
- If you have several people using your PC and each has their own profile, and you want to only allow some of them to remotely access Vista, click the Select Users button. Note that anyone with administrative privileges will be able to connect.
- Select the user(s) you want to allow access and click the Add… button. Note: in the screenshot below there are no users, as my Vista PC only has one user. Click OK.
- Back at the Remote tab of the System Properties window click Apply and then OK.
Now return to the Control Panel and in the Security section, click Allow a program through Windows Firewall.
- Make sure that the box labeled Remote Desktop has a check.
If you’re using a Firewall other than the one built in to Windows Vista, you’ll need to manually allow connections on port 3389 using UDP.
- Now that you’ve finished setting up Remote Desktop in Vista, you’ll need to download a Remote Desktop client for OS X. Head over to http://cord.sourceforge.net and download CoRD v0.5 Beta 1 (or later). Earlier versions of CoRD will not work with Vista. Installing CoRD is as easy as you’d expect - just drag the program to your Applications folder. Launch it from there.
- If the Servers panel isn’t displayed (it should be by default) click the Servers button from the top toolbar. Then click the plus sign (+) button in the bottom right corner of the Servers side panel.
- Enter the IP address your Vista PC is using. If you’re connecting over a local network, enter the IP address assigned by your router/gateway. If you’re connecting across the Internet, and your Vista PC is behind a router, make sure to forward UDP on port 3389 to Vista.
Then enter the user name and password you use to sign in to Vista. Place a check in
Save password if you don’t want to enter it each time. Review the other options and make changes as you see fit (the defaults are good to start with). Close the New Server window when you’re done. - Double-click the new entry in your Servers list.
- And you’ll connect to your Vista PC. From here you can control Vista as if you were sitting in from of it.
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the info does not clarify/explain whether the vista remcon is NOT using a standard vnc based protocol, like osx does …
is it necessary to download CORD because vista remcon is a proprietary?!
I need the opposite. I’ve got a samsung printer connected via usb to an IMac (leopard).
On the mac networking is already open, but I cannot find out the periferal in vista. I must say I’m not that cute in windowa world. Thanks
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