Recently I switched my jobs and was given a MacBookPro and a kick-ass ASUS 6-core intel i7 desktop. (sabertooth x58 motherboard). The desktop is so damn powerful that i want to make this the main work PC. The problem so far is, that the email is on Mac and hence the pointers to the documents and all. I dont want to switch between the two PCs (switch keyboards, mouse etc). So I thought why not create remote desktop environment for both.
With that I was easily able to create remote desktop from Mac to PC. Just download the remote desktop software for Mac from Microsoft website and you are pretty much good to go. Make sure you enable remote desktop on the PC. It was straight forward after that.
The other way round was more tedious. First, there is no software that allows remote desktop from Windows to Mac. There is a new company that seems to be still working on that but is not yet ready. I inquired around and no one in my company has done that earlier. The closest that they did is to use VNC. So I decided to give it a try.
Here is the procedure:
With that I was easily able to create remote desktop from Mac to PC. Just download the remote desktop software for Mac from Microsoft website and you are pretty much good to go. Make sure you enable remote desktop on the PC. It was straight forward after that.
The other way round was more tedious. First, there is no software that allows remote desktop from Windows to Mac. There is a new company that seems to be still working on that but is not yet ready. I inquired around and no one in my company has done that earlier. The closest that they did is to use VNC. So I decided to give it a try.
Here is the procedure:
- on Mac, go to "system preferences"
- Click "sharing"
- enable the "screen sharing" by checking the box next to it
- click the "computer settings" and chose a good password to be used by the users who connect via VNC
- note down the ip address shown in the "screen sharing" pop up
- go to PC and open your vnc viewer (I used RealVNC client, download from here if you dont have it)
- When the viewer opens up, click the "options" and chose "color level" as full ; otherwise vnc exits after connecting.
- enter the server ip address and click ok
- enter the password you gave on Mac to let the PC connect to Mac
- At this point you should see what is on Mac on your PC
I hope this is helpful for folks who are new to Mac as I am. I struggled about 2 hours to get a good PC to Mac set up going. The only problem I am encountering now is that the VNC seems to disconnect every so often. Other than that I am harnessing the power to two great machines.
This is often the case of VNC getting exited because of the screen issues. We had a 12" net book (windows7) connect to a 27" iMac and there happens to be screen issues. Of course, we resolved it by connecting the output of netbook to a projector. This kind of worked for us. am not sure if the screen sizes make any difference but thats how we solved it.
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