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Ugh! I use Team Viewer to take care of family computers. Is there a good alternative on Macs behind NAT?
by pronoiac 10y ago
Ugh! I use Team Viewer to take care of family computers. Is there a good alternative on Macs behind NAT?
- godzillabrennus 10y agoLogMeIn or ScreenConnect if you want to pay for a solution. Nothing else I know of is free.
- 0x0 10y agoiMessage (via Messages.app) has remote control/screensharing built-in :)
- emdd 10y agoAnd, unfortunately, like other Apple services (like Back to my Mac), it suffers from access to computers behind routers.
- RKearney 10y agoComputers behind routers? So... all internet connected computers then? I use Back to my Mac from work all the time and I have no problem accessing my iMac at home from my MacBook Pro at work.
- emdd 10y agoActually, yes. I used to be an Apple Genius and whenever we dealt with two machines on separate LANs, that required NAT, there were so many problems with traversing the routers. We had to do manual setups with port forwarding or DMZ. Facetime seems have significantly improved with this (but was awful when it was iChat w/ Group Video chats), but Back to My Mac is still very problematic-- you can see this issue also by trying to Screen Share over iMessage to other people. In my experience it only has about a 50% success rate. My home setup still doesn't work with Back to My Mac (and hasn't for years).
- allannienhuis 10y agoI've used Chrome remote desktop for a while: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...
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