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squillman
Asked: 2009-05-08 11:04:11 +0800 CST

Alternative Remote Desktop Software

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What are good alternatives to the Windows builtin remote desktop client?

I have tried Terminals and it is great but I've have run into numerous bugs with the latest release (currently 1.7e). Can anyone recommend an alternative similar to Terminals?

EDIT (in response to Adam Gibbins' answer): One of the biggest things I'm looking for is session management and a tabbed environment similar to the Terminals interface.

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  1. Best Answer

    I'm a fan of mRemote. Can use RDP and PuTTY for all my connections, all within one window. It's flaked out on me once, which is a small percentage of when my whole workstation flakes out, so it's good in my book!

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  2. Not really your best "tabs" solution (I guess), but you could just create a multi-session applet using MMC. Just add the 'remote desktop' snap-in and add servers that way. The sessions will stay open and you can go back and forth between them through that MMC applet, make sure you save it though and put it somewhere easily accessible.

    1. Launch mmc (run>mmc)
    2. File>add/rem snap-in
    3. Add the "remote desktop" snap-in
    4. Add your terminal servers

    Good Luck!

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  3. There is RoyalTS, I tried this years ago and gave up because of the bugs. Maybe they have been ironed out.

    However, if you create .rdp file for all your connections and choose group related items on the taskbar you are almost there. We now have all of these in a shared folder so all techs can use them.

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  4. Windows built-in MMC snap-in "Remote Desktops" perhaps? ^^ (note the plural form)

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  5. We used to use RAdmin (http://www.radmin.com/) - it was (a few years ago) way faster than anything else on the market. Could be it still is...

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  6. The built in remote desktop client is one of the best available in terms of performance. If you're really looking for an alternative though, you may wish to try some form of VNC...although its not multi sessioned which could be a let down depending on your situation.

    It might help if you could explain exactly what's missing in the existing remote desktop client?

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  7. I use RD Tabs. It does the job very well, and it is free. Both x86 and x64 versions are available.

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  8. We use visionapp here in my shop. There is a free version that we used to use as well a paid that we made the boss buy us. Easy to setup profile if you many machines and has easy access to the console as well.

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  9. Stumbled upon the continuation of the mRemote in open source space: http://www.mremoteng.org/

    Was looking for UltraVNC support because the last free edition of mRemote didn't seem to work well with it. mRemoteNG is working out great so far!

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  10. I agree about the bugs in Terminals, I really hope they get them sorted out. But to be honest, Terminals has so much potential I've been using it even with the bugs...

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