Originally Posted by
bocastephen
Ohhh...I thought this was an onscreen keyboard for Mac
What I'm trying to do is send a F12 command to a server during its boot process via the 'rdp'-like 'out of band' terminal window. Since it's not yet running, I can't use the windows keyboard to do the command.
I'm sure there has to be a way to do this on a Mac. I'm going to remap Dashboard away from the F12 key, and then try it again.
Are you using Microsoft Remote Desktop 2.0 for Mac as the RDP client? (available from
www.mactopia.com ) Just ensure under your Mac System Preferences, Keyboard, that the Keyboard Shortcut for Dashboard is changed to something else (the new MacBooks use F3 for Dashboard)
I just tested this using Remote Desktop 2.0 and it does work to send the F keys from your keyboard (on a proper imac keyboard just press the F key, On a Macbook try it as is and then try FN + F key) Pressed F12 in Excel and "Save As" opened up as it should on a real Windows PC. That same key mapping should work for a pre-boot RDP session.