Quick Installation Guide
Before you start:
The iRAPP application has two components. One which is installed on your PC and one that is installed on your Mac. You have to install both in order for the software to work. Also, make sure that your PC has network access to your Mac and that both the hardware and network speed meet the minimum requirements. Before the initial installation process, we would recommend that you read about the operating systems that are supported by iRAPP.
- PC: iRAPP Client system requirements
- Supported operating systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
- Minimum recommended CPU: Pentium(R) 4, 1.8GHz
- Minimum free HDD space: 3MB
In addition, we recommend that you have a graphics card with DirectDraw hardware acceleration support.
- Mac: iRAPP Server system requirements
- Supported operating systems: Mac OSX 10.4.8 or higher
- Supported devices: MacMini, iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro
- Minimum recommended CPU: Intel Core Solo 1.5GHz
- Minimum free HDD space: 2MB
- Network Speed Requirements:
- Lowest supported speed: 1024 kbit/s ( 128 KB/s )
- Recommended speed: 10 Mbit/s ( 1.2 MB/s )
ATTENTION - iRAPP Server doesn't support Mac systems based on the PPC CPU Platform, also the remote systems event processing speed depend directly on the network data transfer speed and the transferred image quality. By adjusting the image quality you are able to make iRAPP work on lower bandwidth connections as recommended above.
Install iRAPP Server on your Mac
- 1. Use Finder to open the .dmg file found in iRAPP_Setup.zip
- 2. Navigate to mounted disk image
- 3. Double click on the "iRAPP Setup" icon to install the iRAPP Server application
- 4. Follow the installation wizard
- 5. You will be see a prompt to restart your OS to finalize the install. Please reboot
- 6. Find out the IP address of your Mac computer. You will need to know this later to establish the connection from your PC or the RDP Client
- 1. Double click on the iRAPP_Client_Win_Setup executable found in iRAPP_Setup.zip
- 2. Finish the installation wizard
- 3. Start the iRAPP Client application (by selecting "Launch iRAPP Client" at the end of the install or Start menu => All Programs => iRAPP Client => iRAPP Client)
- 4. When the iRAPP client starts up - In Computer entry field, enter the IP address of your Mac
- 5. Click on "Details" button to manually select remote resolution or to change advanced settings
- 6. Click the "Connect" button
- 7. After iRAPP establishes a connection to your Mac, OS X asks you for your username and password
- 8. iRAPP will display the menu bar, Dock application launcher and desktop icons on your PC screen - you are ready to control your Mac