Windows – RDP with Mac and Server Essentials

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Using Windows Server Essentials 2011, can a Mac connect through the remote web portal and (possibly using a third-party tool, if necessary), create a remote desktop connection to their work machine? Any help you can provide in this instance would be awesome.

UPDATE: let me be very clear. I am not looking to use RDP on a mac to control a windows machine… I understand how to do that. What I AM looking to do is know if there is a tool in place to allow an RWA (remote web access) TO a Mac over Windows Server Essentials.

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Let me save you some headaches... from trying to re-invent the wheel. I believe that includes the necessary plugins for accessing RDP through HTTPS.

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client

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Windows – Useful Command-line Commands on Windows

A little known one is

getmac

It shows the MAC address(es) of your network adapter(s).

Screenshot of running getmac from a Windows commandline window.

Linux – Use eToken Pro over RDP with eToken plugged into server

Yes, it's certainly possible. It has worked OOTB for Windows-to-Windows RDP sessions as long as I remember. However Linux support requires a little bit of hoop jumping.

Do you have the token functioning under Ubuntu already? If so, skip the first step.

eToken support under Linux is provided by OpenSC. PKCS#15 is the standard for communicating with smartcards, but Aladdin's own software predates this slightly and isn't compatible. To solve this you either need to format a suitably sized token with two personalties or use separate tokens for each OS. Obviously you'll need to ensure that each have the relevant certificates imported.
rdesktop has had OpenSC support since 1.5.0. Once you have OpenSC up and working you'll just need to ensure that rdesktop is ./configure'd with the flag --enable-smartcard.

You'll find these two pages useful for additional information:

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