[Macpartners] 2 RDC Q's

[Brian Bulmer]

On Nov 21, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Aran M Parillo wrote:

Batching up 2 separate remote desktop questions.

First – what are people's solutions to preserving screen privacy (of the computer you're connecting to) when screen sharing to a remote desktop?

If you're looking for true security, unfortunately I you have to go with the full version of Apple Remote Desktop from Apple. This will allow you to lock the remote screen while viewing/controlling it. I believe there are different options with Lion, but have not tested them yet.   More info here:  http://www.cultofmac.com/105510/apple-remote-desktop-updated-for-lion/

What I've used many times for customers though is a free preference pane called "Shades"  from Charcoal Design:  http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/shades
It allows you to dim the screen to be completely black, but of course, only at the remote machine for this example. This way when you connect to your mac remotely, the first thing to do is bring brightness down to 0%. This will make the remote screen be completely black at the desk, but since you're not affected by the remote displays brightness, you will see the screen normally, allowing full remote control. You just need to remember to bring brightness back to normal before logging off, or use a key sequence to return it to normal when sitting back at the remote computer.

Second – what windows client will allow a win7 user to remote into their 10.7 machine (that's configured to allow remote management).

TightVNC works best imho.    http://www.tightvnc.com  I have not had much success with others. There are plenty on the Mac side though if you want an alternative to ScreenSharing or ARD.


Thanks for your thoughts and advice here, I've been searching/reading and have yet to find the magic to narrow down results to address my questions.

-amp
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