Lion OS and Remote Desktop Connection. What are my options?

Remote Desktop Connection Client is a Microsoft product, so you probably should take up any issue with that in Microsoft's own forums. This forum is for questions about Apple Remote Desktop, Apple's software for managing networked Macs.

RDC works fine on my Lion system, though, so perhaps you just need a newer version of RDC. I have version 2.1.0.

And please don't curse or use obscenties here. We're all just users helping fellow users and don't deserve to be cursed at.

Regards.

It's a widely reported issue on the Microsoft TechNet site. I'm sure Microsoft will release an update soon.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/e39b3673-cae 8-4b4d-8263-dec644c19020

Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1 seems to work fine for me in lion.

Hi TeenTitan,

What are you connecting to?

Thanks,

Don

Server 2003 2nd Edition, Server 2008 R2

I'd like to note the original poster issue was that he was getting the error message, "does not support PowerPC". He wasn't getting the error message,

"You do not have the proper encryption level to access this session.", or "To logon to this remote computer, you must have Terminal Server User Access permissions on this computer...".

DownloadThis copy of RDC

i have a brand new Lion MacBook Pro and Lion iMac. RDC 2.1.1 crashes , i put in the server ip and i get this error:

Remote Desktop Connection cannot verify the identity of the computer that you want to connect to.

This problem can occur if:

• The remote computer is running a version of Windows that is earlier than Windows Vista.

• The remote computer is configured to support only the RDP security layer.

Contact your administrator, or the owner of the remote computer for assistance.

Do you want to connect anyway.

then when i do, it errors out

if i go back to 2.0.1 it works, however it will kick us out once in a while. i've redownloaded 2.1.1 and still happens that it won't even go as far as 2.0.1. Any ideas? the Windows server is pretty old. it's 2003 but it's listed under the requirements and works on listed for 2.1.1 and 2.0.1.

i did go download the 2.1.1 they had on their website. but still no go. i tried it on my macbook and it still won't go. i thought maybe there were old preferences they have but i clean installed on their new imac. wonder if i need to find the patch? or you think the 2.1.1 should have it. it is dated as 5/2011 for when it was created.

Hi

You said that Microsoft developed a patch to make RDC work for Lion. Where is the link?

The most current page, http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads?pid=Mactopia_RDC&fid=68346E0D-44D3-4065-9 9BB-B664B27EE1F0#viewer which hosts version, RDC_2.1.1_ALL.dmg states the following:

Note Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac (version 2.1.1) is not intended for use with Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion) or later.

Where can I find this patch you mentioned?

Use the remote desktop client found here:

This copy of RDC

It is the version that ships with Office 2011 for Mac and is compatible with Lion.

@Dan_Rice Actually as @LostAccount stated, version 2.1.1 (which is the version at the link you provided) clearly states it is not intended for Lion. If you scroll up you'll see my earlier post, shortly after we escalated to Microsoft, and a little after the escalation that page was updated to reflect.

No worky with Lion.

Don

Whatever version comes with Office 2011 is working for me, I was just using it last night.

I also am using 2.1.1 fine with Lion, going to Windows Server 2003.