I needed to connect to the console of a WinXP machine in the office from my trusty Mac running Snow Leopard and Remote Desktop Connection 2.0 (RDC).
Fired up RDC, entered the name of the machine on the LAN I want to connect to, held down the command (Apple key), and clicked connect.
As an alternative just enter “space” and “/console” after the machines name or address:
“192.168.1.1 /console” or “machine /console”
that way the infos is saved in the connection.
Ian