jharle

Mission accomplished; thank you kindly!

Hello! Apologies if this has been asked before, but I can't find it.

I've successfully migrated my vault to Hub Personal, and can access that from multiple computers running RDM (yea!).

My question is, is it possible to browse "my" online drive to delete the old repository file(s)? Do I even need to worry about that?

Many thanks!

Jim

I've been trying 3.5.4.2 this morning, and like previous 3.5.x the screen draw is dramatically improved over prior versions.

I find the Mac version just fine for managing servers of any Windows version. The most "taxing" seems to be Windows 10, and I find that experience to be inferior to the Microsoft client (not with video performance per se, but more that clicking and interactions are not as precise).

For Mac people in our organization that "live" in Windows 10 machines for part of their job, they use the Microsoft client, but then use RDM for "everything else" (including running the Windows version of RDM inside that remote Windows 10 machine).

Hello!

I hadn't used RDM for Mac for a while, but after updating to version 3.5.3.0 today, Windows 10 sessions are fast now!

You must have made some improvements?

Thanks Benoit,

I tried enabling that and restarted RDM, but sadly it didn't seem to help much. As one of my colleagues put it, the "dot-matrix-printer-screen-draw" is still there.

Thanks for digging in!

Jim

Thank you Benoit, good to know, and it never hurts to ask!

Hello Benoit,

We have several folks using the Mac version of RDM to RDP into remote Windows 10 virtual machines. This video performance problem was brought to my attention recently, and I was going to create a new forum post about it, but then discovered this one, so I'll just latch on to it.

I tried the suggestion of setting the Sandboxing and OpenGL settings to True, and while that does seem to help a little, the video performance is still far from acceptable. Changing the RDP "engine" and color-depth settings in the RDM connection entry also doesn’t help. What does help, is to change the "display" option for the RDM connection entry to "external," as that makes the connection open with the Microsoft RDP client. With the Microsoft RDP client, high resolutions and 32-bit color can be used, and the video performance is very good.

I've also tested connecting to physical Win10 PCs, both local and remote, and the video problem exists with those as well, so the issue seems to have nothing to do with virtualization or network latency, and everything to do with video rendering by whatever "engine" RDM for Mac is using.

Is it possible for the Mac version of RDM to "integrate" with Microsoft's RDP in the OS, like the Windows version of RDM does? Then "embedded" and "undocked" connections in RDM should be just as good as with the "external" Microsoft Remote Desktop client.

For the record, I LOVE Remote Desktop Manager (and primarily use the Windows version, which doesn't have this issue), and would LOVE to see the Mac client be just as great.

Many thanks for your help!

Jim

P.S. If it would be helpful to post a video demonstrating the performance differences between RDM for Mac, and Microsoft's Remote Desktop app, I'm happy to do that!

So I couldn't get Ctrl+F5 nor Ctrl+Refresh to fix it; but, I can simply click the "Data Sources" button, and then click OK with my preferred data source already selected, and the list comes back. So that is much faster than exiting all the way out of the app!

So I've been using this DOD repository for a while (paid subscriber now), and notice one oddity - I have the RDM software running all day long (on Windows), and after a while, the connection to the DOD repository seems to break. When I attempt to create a new connection, or modify an existing one, the action fails, and the "session list" in the left pane changes to "not connected." I then have to close and re-launch RDM, then it's happy again for a while.

Have you heard of this issue with anyone else?

David - thanks, the DOD is a perfectly acceptable solution, and I have that implemented now. Thanks for the quick reply!

-Jim

Hello!

I am in the process of evaluating RDM Enterprise to replace my use of Terminals. One of the limitations of the latter was Windows-only, so I think it's great that RDM supports both Windows and OS X.

I have run into a problem, though, in that when I protect a SQLite data source file with a password, that password does not work to open the file on the other platform. In other words, if I create the data source on Windows and secure it with a password, I am able to open that data source on different Windows computers with that password, but NOT from my Mac. Likewise, if I create the data source from the Mac and secure it with a password, the Windows computers are unable to open it.

Unsecured SQLite data sources work fine from both platforms...I am able to use my sessions and credentials on both.

Is this a known limitation, or should what I'm describing be working?

Many thanks!

Jim

edited by jharle on 8/15/2015