Comment on Ask HN: What's wrong or missing in your favorite OS?Comments−roadnottaken15yMac OS X: lack of a remote-desktop solution.(Able to connect TO a Mac, from any other computer via RDP).I can go from Windows to Linux, Linux to Windows, and Mac to Windows/Linux... but no way to connect TO my OSX box except from another Mac. Why?−marssaxman15yDoes it have to be RDP? I regularly VNC into a headless Mac mini using nothing but the built in VNC client and server.−konad15yOSX comes with remote desktop, it's in System preferences, sharing .., remote desktop (I think). I don't have osx available to get the exact words.It's just VNC. It also has an SSH server in the same section so you can tunnel through securely.−roadnottaken15yWow, thanks. I can't believe I didn't know that. I've only had a Mac for a few months.... Thanks!!!−roadnottaken15yFWIW, after trying VNC on OSX (via Linux and Win7) I have to give Microsoft credit for their RDP implementation. It kick's VNC's ass for speed and usability -- no contest.Still, it's nice to know how to do this on Macs.−konad15yThe VNC implementation on OSX is particularly poor. It crashes and I have to manually restart it.On Linux the VNC is an X client so one can have multiple instances running each exposing with their own graphical shell.Does Windows RDP do that ? (I don't know).TightVNC works the best with low speed networks, it uses JPEG encoding too.BTW. is is also against the Windows EULA to use VNC server on it !
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Mac OS X: lack of a remote-desktop solution.
(Able to connect TO a Mac, from any other computer via RDP).
I can go from Windows to Linux, Linux to Windows, and Mac to Windows/Linux... but no way to connect TO my OSX box except from another Mac. Why?
Does it have to be RDP? I regularly VNC into a headless Mac mini using nothing but the built in VNC client and server.
OSX comes with remote desktop, it's in System preferences, sharing .., remote desktop (I think). I don't have osx available to get the exact words.
It's just VNC. It also has an SSH server in the same section so you can tunnel through securely.
Wow, thanks. I can't believe I didn't know that. I've only had a Mac for a few months.... Thanks!!!
FWIW, after trying VNC on OSX (via Linux and Win7) I have to give Microsoft credit for their RDP implementation. It kick's VNC's ass for speed and usability -- no contest.
Still, it's nice to know how to do this on Macs.
The VNC implementation on OSX is particularly poor. It crashes and I have to manually restart it.
On Linux the VNC is an X client so one can have multiple instances running each exposing with their own graphical shell.
Does Windows RDP do that ? (I don't know).
TightVNC works the best with low speed networks, it uses JPEG encoding too.
BTW. is is also against the Windows EULA to use VNC server on it !