Comments on: Remote Desktop for Mac available for WHS

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:26:55 +0000

Do I need to change this setting for beta 3? Thanks.

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:47:33 +0000

Thanks again Andrew.

By: Andrew Wheler

Andrew Wheler — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:24:36 +0000

Quick update.

My XP RDC clients now seem to irregularly drop the connection w/ my WHS due to some sort of encryption/CRC burp (I didn’t write down the exact error message.) It doesn’t happen too often, so I still have everything configured as I mentioned above, and I just reconnect whenever whenever the connection drops. But I’ll probably end up going back to “Negotiated” security protocol and just wait for MS to fix the issues w/ RDC for the Mac.

Alternatively, I’m running XP on my mac via VMWare Fusion. It may be easier to just use the XP RDC client instead of the Mac RDC client – at least until the bugs are worked out.

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:44:00 +0000

Thanks Andrew Wheeler for the details.

By: Andrew Wheeler

Andrew Wheeler — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:19:58 +0000

FYI, to get this to work w/ beta 2 I had to change WHS’s RDP security protocol from “Negotiated” to “RDP Security Layer”. The problem is mentioned in RDP b2′s Readme file, but they don’t give explicit instructions for making the change.

Instructions
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1. On your WHS go to Start -> All Programs -> Administrative Tools->Terminal Services Configuration…
2. Double-click on Terminal Services->Connections->RDP-Tcp…
3. Select the General tab, and change Security Layer to “RDP Security Layer”.

NOTE: I have no clue if this messes with any of the WHS apps, which seem todepend quite a bit on RDP. I just got it working, and haven’t done much testing. If I run into any problems then I’ll respond to this comment again.