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Apple's Remote Desktop client is bundled for free with every Mac
- TomSawyer 13y agoYou can access Screen Sharing from the Finder with the same ol' cmd+k (Connect to Server...) and enter a url (e.g. vnc://my_remote_mac).
- rainforest 13y agoWorks with the open command from a shell too: open vnc://my_remote_mac
- yardie 13y agoMac power users have known about this feature for over a decade. Theres also a pretty powerful wifi diagnostic tool in the coreservices folder, if you're going to be digging around in there anyway.
- csixty4 13y agoIn Mavericks at least, you can hold Option and click on the Wifi icon in the menu bar to get an "Open Wireless Diagnostics" option in the menu. And you're right -- it's pretty handy when you're surrounded by college apartments that all have their own routers.
- Luyt 13y agoDo you mean the "Network Diagnostic" application?
- yardie 13y agoYes, that is it. I walk around my flat with it open to find low SNR spots. It also helped me diagnose a failing wifi radio chip.
- zimbatm 13y agoAre you talking about this command-line tool ? /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport . Great to scan wifi networks and find unused channels.
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- thread_pool 13y agoThis is not a secret. And it's the Remote Desktop (VNC) client, not the management application sold by Apple
- bradleyland 13y agoA couple of things: 1) This isn't the same as Apple's Remote Desktop product, which can be used for a host of other things related to remote system management like installing software and automation. See the product page for details: http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/ http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/ 2) You don't need to dig around in Library/CoreServices to use this, which is why Apple didn't put it in utilities. Vis a vis iOS, you start from the opposite end that you normally would on a desktop OS. Just like in iOS how you navigate to your photos in order to send a photo, you navigate to the computer you want to control in order to initiate a remote session. HOW TO: Remote control a Mac on your network without digging around in CoreServices First - Make sure "Remote Management" is enabled on the target machine. 1. Launch 'System Preferences'. 2. Click 'Sharing'. 3. In the service list on the left, check the box next to 'Remote Management'. Second - Initiate remote control from your computer. Note: You must have "Show Toolbar" enabled to follow these steps. 1. Launch a new finder window. 2. In the left pane of the Finder window, scroll down to 'SHARED'. 3. Click the name of the computer you wish to control. 4. A gray bar should appear at the top; click 'Share Screen...'. Viola! Screen Sharing should launch automatically and connect. If you're an old school Mac user, you might have disabled 'Show Toolbar' in the finder. You can get it back in one of two ways. With a Finder window active: 1. Press Cmd+Opt+t. 2. In the menu bar, click 'View', 'Show Toolbar'. There are, of course, other ways of getting to the 'Network' portion of the Finder browser, but the 'SHARED' bar on the left is pretty easy and always accessible.
- drinchev 13y agoAwesome... That's why I love hacker news. You always have the perfect comments here. Bravo.
- willyt 13y agoAny computer which can advertise vnc over mDNS (which apple calls 'Rendezvous') will show up in finder sidebar. I have my own custom a raspberryPi image set up to do this out of the box. You can get this going on any Linux box by installing avahi. Then google for instructions to configure avahi to advertise vnc. I believe if you advertise smb or afp that will also cause it to show in the sidebar, but I haven't tried it.
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- uloweb 13y agoBlog post from "14 FEB 2011"
- ehutch79 13y agoThis is NOT remote desktop. remote desktop does so much more than screen sharing. This is just a vnc client.
- Luyt 13y agoMicrosoft publishes a free 'Remote Desktop Client for Mac', which can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18140 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1814...
- HowardJ 13y agoWho the fuck is up voting articles from 2011? Where is the moderation around here. Make sure the date is in the title.
- nicholassmith 13y agoBecause something that people might not know that's from 2011 is less relevant in 2014?
- Garmonidas 13y agoIt works in Mavericks too, it's a good article in 2011 and today.
- matt-attack 13y ago$ open vnc://myhost.example.org/
- fantunes 13y agoThat's a post from 2011. Screen Sharing is available to any mac under System Preferences>Sharing
- uptown 13y agoScreenSharing used to work perfectly for me. I could see my second Mac listed as a "Shared" device in the left-panel of my Finder which would keep in-touch over iCloud. Even if the home machine was asleep, connecting with ScreenSharing would wake up the remote machine and allow me to connect. Since updating to Mavericks I'd say I'm about 20% for this method working. For whatever reason, I can no longer wake-up my remote machine using this method. Wish it was as reliable as it used to be - but I haven't found a fix.
- CptCodeMonkey 13y agoI used VNC a few times to connect to a Mac build box ( I only used Linux professionally ) and ran into a lot of problems with artifacting ( even on a dedicated Gigabit LAN ) or more annoying the remote service would crash and the only way back in was to SSH into the Mac box, kill the remote service, kill all user sessions, and restart.
- freshyill 13y agoThis is more of a useful tip than a secret. If you've got Back to my Mac set up, your other Macs will appear in the Finder sidebar. Just select one and then click "Share Screen…" Other Macs on the local network may show up with the option too.
- kylesethgray 13y agoThis is Screen Sharing. Not Remote Desktop. And it isn't hidden: if there's a Mac on your local network, and you navigate to it in finder, there's a "Share Screen" button right there.
- super_mario 13y agoHow does junk like this get posted on a tech web site. This is the built in VNC client and is very publicly shipped with OS X, and it has nothing to do with Apple's remote desktop. You could always do CMD+k to bring up the "Connect to server dialog" and type vnc://ComputerName.local to VNC into it (if screen sharing is configured in the system prefs on the target machine).
- benguild 13y agoIronically, I wrote this back in 2011 and someone else submitted it earlier today. :D The thing is... Apple doesn't make this feature prominent. The only real consumer-friendly way to access Screen Sharing was through iChat back in the day. The Application is buried within the System folder and most people think you have to pay $50 USD for Apple's commercial Remote Desktop solution. Most people don't need all of the features of the full client, such as remotely installing packages or managing machines. They just want to access their machines through the LAN or through Back to My Mac. https://www.apple.com/support/icloud/back-to-my-mac/ https://www.apple.com/support/icloud/back-to-my-mac/ It's not the same software, but it's basically a scaled down version to get the job done.
- jezfromfuture 13y agoDipshit article from someone who clearly has just installed osx.
- ommunist 13y agoNote that excellent Microsoft Remote Desktop app is free and available from AppStore.