After upgrading to Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro, I only found a couple of minor issues which were easily fixed. One of them was Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Client crashing at startup when I ran it. Luckily the fix was very simple– I simply downloaded the latest version from Microsoft and installed it again. If you’re having problems with Remote Desktop in Snow Leopard, give it a try!
Microsoft Remote Desktop for OS X
Alternatively, you can also try downloading CoRD, an open source Remote Desktop Client and installing it. It seemed to have trouble connecting to my Windows XP workstation for whatever reason, but that doesn’t mean it won’t work for you of course.
CoRD is a Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft Windows computers using the RDP protocol. It’s easy to use, fast, and free for anyone to use or modify.
By crow October 1, 2009 - 3:42 pm
Thanks so much for the tip about the new upgrade. Worked like a charm! At least I don’t have to see that “MIcrosoft Error Report” message again.
By George Hensher January 22, 2010 - 6:07 am
I’d given up on trying to get RDC for connecting to work and reverted back to my PC.. so am glad to report the upgrade did the trick.
By Bill February 13, 2010 - 12:32 pm
Hi, i still have the following issue: RDC brings my Mac (10.6.2, Snow Leopard) to freeze. Only a cold restart helps (Power button).
This happens allways if i start the Windows 7 PC AFTER the Mac.
RDC works fine if i start my PC before the Mac.
By Bill April 3, 2010 - 11:41 am
Update: Problem still exists with OS X 10.6.3 and Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2.0.1
My Mac freezes when connecting to a Windows 7 PC,
only a Power-Reset helps.
My temporary solution: Restarting Mac before connection helps
By John Laur November 30, 2010 - 8:19 pm
Bill,
I am glad someone else in the whole world has this problem too — Occasionally even the latest version of RDC (2.1) will fail to connect and force me to have to hard reboot. For the life of me I cannot even fathom how it causes such a problem.
Did you ever locate a solution?
By Bill September 19, 2011 - 11:14 am
Hi John, it’s getting even worse. Since a few days i can’t login to my Windows 7 Computer anymore. Meanwhile i’m on OS X 10.6.8 and RDC 2.1.1
By Edward Gueulette October 6, 2011 - 11:13 am
BIl, we just started experiencing this as well OS X 10.6.8 and RDC 2.1.1. Puts the kernel into a Panic state, only hard (power off/on) will work. The last change I did was downloading Parallels V6 latest updates.
By Ben October 12, 2011 - 6:16 pm
Hey Bill, delete your RDC cache and assosiated plist config files to see if that helps:
Whole dir:
/Users/username/Library/Caches/remote desktop connection
Files:
/Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.rdc.*
This will revert the RDC software back to a default un configured state
By Bill October 25, 2011 - 11:26 am
Hi Ben, thanks for that, but before i could read this i upgraded to 10.7 Lion and iRDC is working since then!
By ANSHUL AGRAWAL September 22, 2012 - 1:41 am
AWESOME SOLUTIONS. CORD IS A GOOD ALTERNATIVE! THANKS