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dorianj / CoRD

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.
http://cord.sourceforge.net/
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Is this project being maintained? #74

Open clemenko opened 9 years ago

dorianj commented 9 years ago

No.

clemenko commented 9 years ago

Ouch Sorry. I still use cord and love it!

kiddailey commented 9 years ago

Likewise! Would love to work on this myself but can't. If there was a way to donate/purchase for future development, I definitely would.

aalbertson commented 9 years ago

Would be nice if you could provide some details around why.... and if you're done with it, perhaps ensure everything's in order for the community to pick it up. I'm pretty sure a lot of folks would find it handy to have some activity on this.

peelman commented 9 years ago

I can't speak for @dorianj, but from my perspective, CoRD's usefulness is dwindling for a variety of reasons.

1) its rdesktop 1.6 foundation has went beyond "old and creaky". Bringing it inline with >1.8 is a challenging process I've attempted several times, but have given up just due to the amount of work and lack of free time I've had to dedicate to it.

2) (1) combined with the fact that freeRDP is such a better library for building other clients on top of, makes it really hard to sink untold hours into trying to upgrade it.

3) The Microsoft RDP client is far from perfect, but given its support of huge pieces of the protocol that CoRD can only dream of supporting, it has almost completely taken over my RDP needs, save for a few small edge cases.

4) Given (3) it makes it really hard to justify dumping what will be a lot of time into something, especially given that there seems to be a lack of Mac-minded developers willing to put time into an RDP client (and who can blame them really, its a pretty big edge case when you look at the Mac universe as a whole).

aalbertson commented 9 years ago

@peelman that is MORE than perfectly acceptable. My pain in wanting further development is specifically related to how I manage AWS infrastructure and desiring something that I could script and initiate a login session from the command line. I am not at present deploying AD for my infrastructure, and am therefore using an SSH key to generate a unique password on each machine. I have it scripted out to output the necessary credentials and information, but the MS RDP client does not support sending a password from the command line. It allows initiating the connection, but it's expecting you to have some other method (preferably AD) to actually input the password.

I digress. I'll give rdesktop a whirl again and check out freeRDP.

Thanks again for your response. It makes a lot of sense and am fine letting this go.

RIP CoRD.

peelman commented 9 years ago

I feel your pain @aalbertson. FreeRDP's mac client, and/or a unix build combined with XQuartz might be a bit of a kludge, but it might make your automation woes go away.

lemonmojo commented 9 years ago

@aalbertson You might want to check out Royal TSX. Disclaimer: I'm the developer of the OS X version! Our RDP plugin is based on FreeRDP and we do offer several ways to script/trigger some action in the application (AppleScript, URL scheme). It's not open source like CoRD but we do offer a free version that might fit your bill.

clemenko commented 9 years ago

It is pretty slick..

dd217 commented 9 years ago

Hello All, I'm willing to lend a hand in any means necessary to help resurrect development on CORD. Currently I use CORD religiously at my day job and love how it works, yet I have noticed that stability has started to flake out with some of the newer OSs. Maybe I'm stubborn to let go of CORD in my daily workflow; but either way I wish to set out and do what I can to keep this project alive. Of course this isn't going to be an overnight revival, and personally I still have a bit to learn about the deep workings of RDP, but I pick things up quite quickly and am willing to dive right in!

If at all possible, would any members in the community be willing to be a mentor and help catch me up to speed on some of the inner workings of the code? I understand that this may be to much to ask, but I appreciate any consideration!

Best to all.

aalbertson commented 9 years ago

@lemonmojo Hmm, I'm normally mainly looking at OSS apps, but I have purchased my share as needed. :) Not a freeloader, just love OSS projects. TSX looks interesting, and devs need to eat as well. I'll give it a whirl and message you with some questions. Thanks!

Magneticdud commented 6 years ago

It's a pity that CoRD is now unsupported...

MS RDP 8.0 was too good, but has been now discontinued.

The new version totally sucks, doesn't even support USB keyboards and USB mouse, in particolar it applies a "smoothening" on the scroll, optimized for the apple magic mouse, that basically ruins it for regular mouse