TMUP80: Access your Mac via Remote
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Tonight George Starcher from the In The Trenches Podcast joins me for an hour long conversation on accessing your Mac via Remote.
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Links Mentioned
Friends in Tech Child Safety PDF (you need to get this and pass it around)
ARD Wikipedia (lots of great information here)
How to get ARD to work behind a router
VNC Vine Server (formally OSXVnc)
Screencast on Remote Access of Mac VNC through SSH from a PC googled for “vnc ssh mac”
May 30th, 2007 at 5:45 am
Great Great show! This is a keeper! Thanks
May 30th, 2007 at 6:07 am
Thanks for another great episode, Victor. And a special thanks to George I use VNC all the time to control my iMac G5 and my Linux PCs at home. Vine Server has worked great for me, even better than the built-in VNC component in Tiger since Vine Server allows me to access the Mac even when someone is not logged in (something that I couldn’t do with the built-in VNC component in Tiger unless the user was already logged in). Vine Server also handled resolution changes better than the built-in VNC component in Tiger. I also use Chicken of the VNC on the iMac and love it.
Also, if you wanted to control a Windows XP or Windows Vista computer remotely from your Mac, Microsoft has the Remote Desktop Client for Macintosh (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=remotedesktopclient). It’s not a UB, but it will still work decently on Intel Macs. For the command-line jockeys, there’s also the open source app called rdesktop (http://www.rdesktop.org) which can be downloaded and compiled or you can install it using Fink or DarwinPorts. Once you have that installed, you can also use this front-end for rdesktop called RDC from Baritchi Software (http://www.baritchisoftware.com/oss/mac/rdc). Both RDC and rdesktop require X11 to be installed, and RDC will only work in Tiger. The latter isn’t for everyone, but it’s a great open source solution.
May 30th, 2007 at 9:31 am
I have to echo Quadsix50’s comments. An absolutely GREAT show Victor. If anyone hasn’t yet viewed Mark Pilgrim’s screencast, its a fantastic step-by-step on securely connecting to your MAC from a PC via a VNC client while tunneling through SSH.
As a LONGTIME PC guy and recent “slider”… (ok, it’s been over a year now)… I still work on and maintain both environments.
Thanks to George for, again lending a hand on the podcast. His input is always appreciated.
May 30th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Hi Victor,
I was a little surprised you didn’t mention SpyMe for remote controlling macs but I guess time was short, ( http://www.readpixel.com/spyme ). It lets you fully control mac(s), with easy file transfer, screen resizing and a ton of other good stuff you won’t find in VNC but will on more high end products . You can actually use it for free if you can live with it timing out after 30 mins or just $15 for a 3 user licence. If you look on their home page to the right there’s a screeencast from Don McAllister showing off it’s features too, the best $15 I’ve ever spent!
Cheers
June 6th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
The logmein peope now have a mac client- https://secure.logmein.com/products/mac/
I’ve tested it and does work well with a PC controlling a mac, far smoother than VNC. It’s big plus here is thati it already uses SSL so you don’t need to use a VPN like Hamachi and mess about opening up firewall ports.
We’ve started a thread with screeshots over at the Screencastsonline forum- http://screencastsonline.com/forums/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1181148522/0#0