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A 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
by bradleyland 13y ago
A 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.
- sirn 13y agoBonus if you have Back To My Mac enabled! Back To My Mac will enable Wide Area Bonjour and do all the necessary port forwarding (via UPnP/NAT-PMP and private IPv6 network between your Macs), as long as all machines are logged into the same Apple ID account, you can access the shared services on target machine (VNC, SSH, file sharing, etc.) from a different network right from Finder as well.
- cstross 13y agoViola! Screen Sharing should launch automatically and connect. Syntax nit: A viola is a stringed instrument. "voilà" is French for "see" or "there!"
- wnoise 13y agoThere is a good chance that this was a deliberate misusage.
- collyw 13y agoNot everyone can type accents on their default keyboard. I don't think anyone was really confused between that and teh stringed instument given the context.
- nkozyra 13y agoThis guy right here has a solid grammatical bass.
- nkozyra 13y agoLet it be known - HN users not down with cheesy puns.
- pilif 13y agoOr you make sure that the Finder is the active application and you press Command-K (Go > Connect to Server). In the window that pops up, you type vnc://<address> This will work both with macs and their special authentication and with any other VNC server (using just a password). Other protocols that work are afp:// (apple file sharing), smb:// (windows file sharing), http:// http:// (webdav), https:// https:// (webdav), ftp:// (ftp)
- sigmaris 13y agonfs:// will also work in the Connect to Server window.
- niels_olson 13y agoI use these two functions, VNC and NFS, every day on my network. Almost all macs. Had no idea these were unknown...
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