

Fortunately, FreeRDP was already born to fill the gap in the open source RDP implementation space and as soon as the first reference implementation for the Mac was available in FreeRDP’s Github repository, we immediately began to work on our own Mac-specific implementation of FreeRDP. Development basically stalled for both projects, while the RDP protocol continued to evolve at rapid pace. While this initially worked and a lot of the pre-V1 public beta versions shipped with only the CoRD-based RDP plugin, it quickly became apparent that the future for rdesktop and CoRD wasn’t bright. Fortunately, a Mac-native open source application called CoRD was available which we based our very first version of the Royal TSX RDP plugin on. So the only viable option left was to go with rdesktop. Since the RDP protocol is such a beast, writing our own implementation wasn’t ever an option. Basically, we could’ve either chosen to write our own protocol implementation or go with rdesktop. When Royal TSX development was started in 2010, there weren’t a lot of options to integrate the RDP protocol into non-Windows applications.

Quite a few of our customers are even ranked in the Fortune 500 list which makes us very proud of what we’ve achieved over the last couple years and FreeRDP plays a big part in that success-story! Why FreeRDP? Fast-forward to 2018 and tens of thousands of IT professionals around the world are now using our solutions on the Mac. So in 2012, Royal TSX 1.0 was released and quickly became the go-to remote management tool on the platform. With the surge of the Mac in the IT-professional space around 2010, we felt it was time to fill the gap and go cross-platform. Gone were the days of Microsoft Remote Desktop shortcuts filling IT professional’s desktops.
COPY FILE TO RDP ROYAL TSX WINDOWS
First introduced in 2003, it quickly became a staple among Windows administrators because it drastically simplified the way RDP connections could be managed. Royal TS for Windows has been around for what feels like ages. In addition, Royal TSX also offers great features around credential management, task automation, team sharing, SSH tunneling and more but the focus of this blog post is, of course, all about the features based on FreeRDP. It allows you to manage your systems using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), SSH, VNC, S/FTP, web pages, and many more. Hi, I’m Felix, lead developer of Royal TSX for macOS! Royal TSX is a very popular Mac tool for systems engineers and IT professionals who need remote access to systems with different protocols. Posted by Felix Deimel on February 07, 2019
