Cannot share clipboard when using Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection to Windows7

When copying files from Mac to PC using Microsoft Remote Desktop I prefer to share a subfolder, not the entire drive.

Here's how:

• In Remote Desktop on your Mac select your PC in the "My Desktops" section.

• Click the "Edit" button (pencil icon).

• In the popup click the "Redirection" button (folder icon; see image below).

• Check the "Enable folder redirection" box.

• Click the "+" button at the bottom of that window and browse to the Mac folder you want to share.

• Connect to the remote PC.

• Look for your shared Mac folder in your PC's "My Computer" directory (see image below).

Finally, as noted by @Bart and @robbpriestley in the comments below, if you are already connected to the remote computer you need to re-establish your connection in order to see the shared folder.

Don't forward local port 3389, various versions of Remote Desktop are too smart for their own good.

My usual steps involve forwarding local 3390 to remote 3389. Then, in MacRDC I use: localhost:3390 as the address to connect too.

I don't know if you're using anything to assist in the ssh connection setup, but from the command line, it would be something like:

ssh -L 3390:172.16.5.32:3389 jason@remote.net

Where;
- 3390 is the local forwarding port on my box.
- 172.16.5.32 is the remote windows host. and;
- 3389 is the Remote Desktop Port (obviously).