[Macpartners] Remote Access for Clients

[Quentin Smith]

If you have Leopard, Apple includes the screen viewer from Remote Desktop 
for free with the OS - it's called Screen Sharing.app, and it's in 
/System/Library/CoreServices. You can launch it by hand and it will prompt 
you for the machine to connect to.

--Quentin

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Helen Rose wrote:

>
> On Jul 28, 2008, at 14:46 EDT, Douglas Alan wrote:
>
>> Brian Bulmer <bbulmer at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>>
>>> After setting this up, you can now remotely control your Mac with any
>>> free VNC viewer (e.g. Chicken of the VNC), running on Mac OS X or any
>>> other OS. Chicken of the VNC seems to work the best with default
>>> settings, be sure you record your work computers IP.
>>
>> I've tried this at times, but have found the performance to be
>> unbearable.  Performance with the Apple Remote Desktop client is much
>> better.  It costs a pretty penny, though.
>>
>
> "pretty penny"? $300 for the unlimited client version of the software
> ($150 for 10-client), with an educational discount. Although I guess
> it depends if you're buying it for you or for your department. For me,
> the $300 is pittance considering I use the software to manage ~130
> machines.
>
> You too can install software packages remotely, force machines to
> reboot, run tasks at specified times, gather audit information (e.g.
> serial numbers). ARD makes it easy.
>
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