VNC

TimBukTu for both Mac and PC VNC works well from Mac to PC, haven't tried it from a PC to Mac, but may work. Go to versiontracker.com and search 'VNC' for both Windows and Mac. On the Mac Vine is good. UltraVNC works well for PC's.

Chicken of the VNC". It lets me connect to a windows pc running XP Home. Windows remote desktop connection for mac only works with XP Pro version. Chicken of the VNC is great... free, easy to install and run and super fast on my homenetwork. ...

If you want to use VNC, I recommend Chicken of the VNC as a VNC client for Mac OS X so that you can control the other computers through VNC. ...

I'm currently using Windows Remote Desktop Connection on my main osx machine to manage an XP server, but it would be nice to manage my mixed environment using only ARD 3 which I like using for the Mac side of things. Is there anyone who has successfully pulled this off? I have VNC Server running on the XP, and ARD can see it, but anytime I try to control (or even send a...

Thanks, VNC worked great. Sorry for double thread. ...

I'm currently using Windows Remote Desktop Connection on my main osx machine to manage an XP server, but it would be nice to manage my mixed environment using only ARD 3 which I like using for the Mac side of things. Is there anyone who has successfully pulled this off? I have VNC Server running on the XP, and ARD can see it, but anytime I try to control (or even send a...

VNC is free and would work for you. VNC programs for Mac. Vine viewer/server works good. VNC programs for Windows. UltraVNC viewer/server works good. You could also use Apple Remote Desktop or TimBukTu.

You're using "Remote Desktop" software from Microsoft. Windows XP is restricted here, will only let one user be active that way. VNC is a protocol used by various software applications. You'll find free versions of both the server application (for your Windows XP box) and the client application (for your Mac). Go to www.versiontracker.com and search their Mac software...

Whats VNC? I can control the XP desktop. But logging on to the XP pc from my iMac logs of user on the XP pc off. I want to be able to stay logged in on the pc while viewing the desktop of the xp pc on my iMac.

But you can do it using a VNC server on the WinXP box and a VNC client on the Mac. ...