Recent content by beara

RDP on a LAN? Controlling a windows box from my Mac, working on a legacy machine running old software, working on the backup machine that's in another office. That's what I use it for.

We use the Microsoft Remote Desktop app within the office, but I have never managed to get it to work on the WAN, beyond my technical expertise, and it does play nicely on the Macs. Got to say that what moved me away from windows to mac was the ‘they just work’ sales pitch and in my experience...

It's frustrating - the old system had to use print to pdf to a shared folder but was clunky and slow. When Remote printing works everything is fine.... I'm beginning to think that it might just be simpler to pop a small windows machine in his office to do the remote stuff on, as windows to...

Thanks George and Minty They are now in a position to do what is necessary, so I'll go through the points raised. Parallels is certainly an option, I use it myself to work on the systems for them as I work on Macs. The system now is much leaner than it used to be. The front end is less than...

I have a fairly small database that's split into front and back ends, that I originally wrote in Access 2 for a friend's small business. they've been using it for the past 30 years and its now running on Microsoft 365. (Up until recently it was still the original Access 2 DB and I was having to...

Hi all, I've been tinkering with Access since 1.1 and wrote a Database in Access 2 for some friends that they've been running their business on it since 1993. I've been nagging them for years about updating it, but whilst it still worked they didn't want to :eek:. I've had to nurse several old...