MS Terminal Services/Citrix equivelant

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MS Terminal Services/Citrix equivelant

This may be the wrong forum area but none of the others seem to be appropriate either.

What I'm looking for is an equivalent to Citrix/TS functionality. I'm looking for the ability to log into a server or desktop remotely kind of like RDC with MS. A way to push applications to other desktops is a goal as well. I know X11 has this ability but from what I can tell it doesn't push Mac software only X11 based software. I also like RDC's ability to use a Web Page based interface for access over HTTP(S).

If anyone has any inklings as to where to obtain this kind functionality in OS X/Server I'd appreciate it.

Oh. I realize that Remote Desktop does this but it's applied from a support standpoint not a user standpoint.

Posted on Aug 16, 2005 8:59 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 25, 2005 7:53 AM in response to Michael Kleinpaste

I've been gone for a week and not one comment, theory, idea, flame or anything?

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Answer 2

Sep 13, 2005 10:53 PM in response to Michael Kleinpaste

I discussed this functionality with Apple at an executive briefing some two years ago, and didn't get much in the way of an enthusiastic response. I think it had to do with my couching it in the terms of a Citrix competitor. But, they don't want non-Windows users to use their systems remotely (i.e. from a Linux desktop), they want OS X ON the desktop.

As I recall, NextStep/OpenStep had a proprietary remote display protocol to handle the display of Display Postscript on remote clients. No idea what happened to that with OS X....

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Answer 3

Sep 13, 2005 11:09 PM in response to Sean Brannon

Disappointing, but Thanks.

Even a functionality that works like X11 (the ability to push individual applications out to clients) independant of OS would be great. If it had something like that there's a good chance I could convince my company to start porting our software to an OS X base. It may not be running on the desktop CPU, but it can get it's exposure out of the backend and make users curious on the front-end.

The reliability alone is worth it, but being able to provide a Citrix like connection would be great.

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Answer 4

Dec 4, 2005 7:35 PM in response to Michael Kleinpaste

Have you had a look into the various VNC options?

OSXvnc (server) http://www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html
Chicken of the VNC (client) http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/

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