File Service Remote Access for Mac. You can access your File Service Home Drive and Shared Folders off campus or via your home Internet connection as follows. If you are not on an SOE Mac this is the only way you can connect to the service at the present time.
Are you connecting from the same local network, or across the internet? If you are on the same LAN, use Windows Remote Desktop if the PC is running Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista Business/Ultimate/Enterprise, or Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate/Enterprise or any version of Windows Server. Microsoft has a. If you have a version of Windows which does not support Remote Desktop, try another VNC product. UltraVNC and TightVNC are two popular ones which seem to work fairly well. If those are also experiencing slowness like you indicated, check to see if maybe the network link is having other issues - high latencies, etc.
When this happens, there are a number of tricks you can try to speed it up again.
If you are connecting over the internet, there are several options. One is to forward the port for Remote Desktop to your router. It is port 3389, though you may want to forward a different external port to make it harder for attackers to compromise your network. Another, easier way would be to use a product like, where you can access the computer from anywhere using a browser-based plugin.