Google Remote Desktop For Mac

I don't know if I'm missing some big secret, or if this just hasn't been a priority for Apple. However at my office we use Windows Remote Desktop to login to machines every day all over the country.

The problem is my station at the office is a Mac, and when I'm at home and I want to remote into my machine from my Window laptop I'm baffled?! I found all sorts of third party software, tips and tricks to get it done. I'm thinking though, surely there has to be an offical Apple backed means of remoting in to Apple computers from a Windows OS, similar to RDP.

Open Chrome Remote Desktop on the smartphone that you are using to connect to the Mac and make sure you're signed in to your Google account on both devices. 8 Find the list of computers (there may only be one computer if you only set up one).

Can someone please share with me if this is possible, and if it's not, what's the accepted standard application used to accomplish this? You need a VNC client, and some method of networking to your work Mac. On the Mac you need to enable System Preferences -> Sharing -> Screen Sharing, then click Computer Settings and set a VNC password. There are several VNC clients avaiable for Windows, TightVNC, UltraVNC, RealVNC, etc.

The only issue using a 3rd party VNC client with the Mac OS X build-in VNC server is that the Mac OS X server does not always play nice with 3rd party clients. If you find you can connect, but are having problems, you could consider disabling the System Preferences -> Sharing -> Screen Sharing, and installing the free Vine Server which does play nicely with 3rd party VNC clients.

Logmein.com dosn't work on Mac anymore. You can see many other forums others having the same issue recently. It has not worked now for several months. I don't know if they gave up supporting Mac or they are just asleep and don't care. But one thing is for sure, you can scratch logmein.com off the list of realistic option for remoting to a Mac machine. Team Viewer as I remember is not firewall friendly. Good luck finding one that works up to Apple standards.

They are all hack arounds and nothing that just works hassle free as should be an available option. As far as an official Apple solution, they have Back to my Mac, which allows one Mac to remote into another Mac, it is simply configured and seems to 'just work.' I don't think that they're really concerned with an 'official' solution for letting a PC remote in to a Mac, because why would they? That's likely of low importance for them, and conversely I imagine Microsoft certainly isn't concerned with an 'official' solution for letting Macs remote into PC. And if your answer for that is RDP as part of Office 2011 for Mac, well, if that's 'official' it's a pretty sad effort. But for other solutions, TeamViewer works well and I would probably promote that as the easiest tool, I use it often.