This lab explores two scenarios for establishing Remote Desktop
connections between Macintosh and Windows based machines. These
scenarios demonstrate that it is possible to establish a connection
in both directions: a Mac connecting to a Windows machine, and a
Windows machine connecting to a Mac.
Lab Scenarios
- In the first scenario, Aqua Connect's Mac Remote
Desktop Beta is used to allow a Windows based machine to
establish a remote session to a Macintosh OSX machine, enabling
remote access to the Macintosh system and applications in much the
same manner as traditional remote access on homogenous machines.
This functionality relies on Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol
(RDP) thanks to a licensing agreement between Aqua Connect and
Microsoft.
- To accomplish the reversed scenario (from Macintosh to
Windows), a second configuration was built utilizing Microsoft's
Remote Desktop Client for Mac 2 (RDC2). This client installs on a
Macintosh machine, and enables the Macintosh machine to establish
remote desktop connections with RDP capable Windows machines.
RDC2 was released in July 2008, and is available as a free download
on
Mactopia.
