[Macpartners] Remote Access for Clients

[Leon Lincoln]

in fact, you can do it from "connect to server" and type in vnc:// 
(name of computer) and it will allow you take control of it if ARD or  
Screen Sharing is enabled. This eliminates the need to find the  
program Screen Sharing.app because it will be launched automatically.

Leon

On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Quentin Smith wrote:

> 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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