MacOS – RDP from OS X to Windows using RD/TS Gateway Services

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I am trying to connect from my Mac 10.8 to my work Terminal Services server. It think it runs Windows Server 2008. When using the RDC Client on WinXP ➞ Win 8 it bring up these menu options:

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You can see here it has the computer and the username/domain field. Then when I go to the Advanced field, I get the following:

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When I open up CORD, it is missing the option to put the computer name in the field. For RDC to my work network, I had the IT people look at both CORD and Microsoft RDC for OS X and they couldn't figure it out.

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Can anyone shed light, based on those settings in my RDC (which is running on Windows 7 in a Parallels environment) how I could join to my network. Everyone says I need to be able to specify the following things:

  1. URL to join logon.tech2group.com.au
  2. Domain and Username stream/danijel.james
  3. Computer name at the other end rdfarm002

Best Answer

These are the mappings from the MS RDP application to CoRD:

 MS RDP Field                          CoRD Field
 ----------------------------------------------------------
 Computer                              Address
 Domain part of your username          Domain (STREAM in your screen shots)
 Username part of your username        Username (danijel.james in your screen shots)

The RD Gateway server stuff isn't supported by CoRD though so you might be out of luck. You can try RDP'ing to your RD Gateway (use logon.tech2group.com.au in the Address field in CoRD) and then RDP'ing from that machine in to another machine.

The only RDP application for OS X that I know of that supports RD Gateway/TS Gateway services is iTap. It's not free, it's $24.99, on the Mac App Store. I haven't used it personally so I can't tell you if it's worth the money and supports RD Gateway the way it promises to.

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