Feasibility of TSClient for MAc on application

We have an application written for Windows that we distribute to
Entertainment Companies. Several companies are interested in running our
Application (Client/Server) from their Macs. We are wondering if the
Terminal Services Client for the MAC is stable and robust enought to
consider making it the basis on which to deploy a critical application.

Are there any known quirks which make this application less than useable for
full time application use? How does it support printing to Network printers
from the Mac Client? Is it reasonably stable?. How does the Right Mouse
Button get implimented.

Thanks for any help here.

Glenn Barber
Gray Matter LLC

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"Glenn Barber" <gabarber RemoveThis @msn.com> wrote:

> We have an application written for Windows that we distribute to
> Entertainment Companies. Several companies are interested in running our
> Application (Client/Server) from their Macs. We are wondering if the
> Terminal Services Client for the MAC is stable and robust enought to
> consider making it the basis on which to deploy a critical application.
>
> Are there any known quirks which make this application less than useable for
> full time application use? How does it support printing to Network printers
> from the Mac Client? Is it reasonably stable?. How does the Right Mouse
> Button get implimented.

Hi Glenn!

I've heard of this type of setup before with Citrix and not RDC but this
may be worth a try for you. I've used RDC to connect to my home server
over the Internet and have stayed logged in for several hours at a time.
Of course that's one client with one server and little load.

Printing is an iffy subject. Anyone with a locally attached printer is
probably using a non-Postscript printer. Printing requires a Postscript
printer. I've seen one or two posts from folks claiming they were able
to make this work (or knew of a way to make it work) but I've yet to see
anything that has worked well, if at all.

Two button mice are supported. Macs with single button mice can set
their RDC preferences to have a keyboard modifier to enable a
right-click.

Hope this helps! bill
--
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)