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www.join.me
it's free and works with both macs and windows.
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There's also Royal TSX, which is similar to CoRD but much more powerful. It is a commercial app, but provides a shareware version that allows you to manage up to 1 document, 10 connections and 10 credentials for free.
It also offers native OS X fullscreen mode and an extended fullscreen mode that minimized the UI down to only the tab bar being visible.
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Check out Royal TSX if you're after a full featured connections manager that can do RDP as well as other protocols like, VNC, SSH, Telnet, etc.
http://www.royaltsx.com/main/home/osx.aspx
It's currently in public beta, but V1.0 will be available very soon.
Disclaimer: I'm the developer of the mentioned product.
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Yes, as long as you port forward (vnc://router.address:5900).
VNC default port is 5900, so make sure that your router is correctly port forwarding this. You can change the port in your router settings.
This Apple KB article gives more details about OS X screen sharing.
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Yes. And you can make it work through most firewalls if you're both using Messages. Messages will broker the handshake to start the session and then turn it over to the screen sharing app.
Start up Messages and make sure Screen Sharing is enabled:
Find your buddy in your contact list in Messages and click on them. Then select Buddies -> Share My ...
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Mac OS doesn't have a terminal services centric design, so the loginwindow ties the remote screen resolution tightly to the actual physical screen dimensions.
Some easy solutions are to connect the Mac to a display (or a display dongle that simulates a plug and play monitor of a resolution of your choosing to the OS) so that the OS allocates a larger pixel ...
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I have a possible solution for you, I say 'possible' because it's not very reliable (I submitted a question on it earlier).
One other thing, you'll have to "Enable access for assistive devices", I don't know why. So here's the AppleScript:
tell application "System Preferences"
reveal pane "com.apple.preferences.sharing"
end tell
tell application ...
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Google Remote Desktop allows this. I accidentally discovered this last night while testing alternatives to LogMeIn.
You'll need to install it via Chrome and sign in to your Google account while logged into OS X under the account that will be doing the remoting.
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If you set the VM's up with Bridged network connections rather than NAT network connections they will all get different IP Addresses on the same subnet. Best way to do it.
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In my experienced opinion, CoRD and Jump Desktop are the best RDP clients for Mac. CoRD is more for those that know what they're doing - it's simple, stable, fast and reliable. Jump Desktop however is for those that are new to Remote Desktop Connections and want something that makes things easy. It's easily the slickest RDP client for Mac too and looks ...
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