<p>Does anyone know of a similar product to Citrix Server that'll run on the Mac OS?</p>

<p>Essentially, I'm looking to allow multiple remote users to log in to the same OSX Server at the same time (with full visual desktop, not SSH).</p>

[{'answer_id': 48519, 'author': 'Sören Kuklau', 'author_id': 1600, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1600', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>OS X\'s Quartz window server has no remoting abilities, unlike <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript" rel="nofollow noreferrer">its predecessor</a>. X11 <em>does</em>, but \'native\' OS X applications don\'t use that; of the few Mac apps typically run in X11 (such as GIMP or CrossOver), none are specific to the Mac, so you might as well run them on a different OS.</p>\n\n<p>That said, if all you want is to visually remote-control a session, it is possible to use VNC or a derivative, such as Apple Remote Desktop. Since 10.4, this allows for multiple simultaneous sessions, <a href="http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine_viewer/multidesktop" rel="nofollow noreferrer">as implemented with Vine Server</a>. Remote Desktop also has other abilities such as remotely installing and updating software.</p>\n\n<p>(Unlike Citrix and X11, VNC does <em>not</em> send drawing commands over the network; it instead transmits a compressed image representation pixel-per-pixel.)</p>\n\n<p>You should specify your exact needs. <strong>You will not get a Citrix-like experience where you can run single Mac apps in their own remote session.</strong> You will, however, get remote graphical control, and that <em>may</em> be more than enough for you.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 48729, 'author': 'ceejayoz', 'author_id': 1902010, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1902010', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Anyone have experience with <a href="http://www.aquaconnect.net/?page_id=26" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Aqua Connect</a>? Found them from Google, and they claim the next version works on RDP as well as VNC. Wondering if it\'s just a nice wrapper around the VNC capabilities <code>@Soeren Kuklau</code> pointed out.</p>\n\n<p>Thanks for the link to Vine Server, that\'s worth investigating.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 48738, 'author': 'Sören Kuklau', 'author_id': 1600, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1600', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I\'ve never heard of it, but <a href="http://www.aquaconnect.net/?p=170" rel="nofollow noreferrer">from their blog</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Aqua Connect Terminal Server uses the VNC (Virtual Network Computing) protocol to send data between Mac OS X and the client application.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Now, if someone <em>does</em> know of a non-VNC solution, I\'d be happy to hear it.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 49941, 'author': 'Sören Kuklau', 'author_id': 1600, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1600', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>John Vasileff,</p>\n\n<p>Back to My Mac is a tunnelling / NAT traversal technique that enables the use of any networking (including VNC-based remote control). iChat screen sharing, Finder Screen Sharing and Remote Desktop all use VNC. Apple does not offer any non-VNC solutions.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 242154, 'author': 'bugmagnet', 'author_id': 426, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/426', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><a href="http://citrixblogger.org/2008/09/08/citrix-iphone-xendesktop-demo/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Citrix XenDesktop iPhone Demo</a></p>\n'}]
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