management software that facilitates VNC-like control of Macs as well as automating remote management and reporting tasks
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Direct only RDP traffic through Cisco AnyConnect VPN
Is it possible, using Cisco AnyConnect VPN client, to pass only certain types of traffic / traffic over certain ports through the VPN, while the rest of the traffic goes through the normal network ...
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Does screen sharing work when not on the same local network?
Does screen sharing (System Preferences > Sharing > Screen Sharing) work when the computers are on different networks? For example, if computer A is using Wifi in Texas and computer B is using Wifi ...
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Error adding a task server to Apple Remote Desktop
Recently our organization decided to add a few more copies of Apple Remote Desktop to our IT staff, one of which is now used on our 10.8.3 Server. I've setup ARD on the server with the thought of ...
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How can I expand my remote desktop image size?
I'm primarily a PC/*nix user and just have a MacBook Pro for the occasional iOS dev work. Rather than clutter up my desk with multiple screens, keyboards, etc, I use my Windows box as my primary and ...
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Connection to Mac OS 10.7 from Windows via VNC hangs on/after login screen
I'm connection to my Mac Mini from Windows, using RealVNC client (also tried TightVNC with the same behavior).
And, Login Screen shows fine, but when I'm typing password sometimes it hangs. Also it ...
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Check Remote Management Status via Terminal
I need to be able to SSH into a Mac (Mountain Lion) and check if ARD is running and if so, what are the settings. Basically, I need the equivalent of going to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Remote ...
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How do you set up a second VNC session?
On mac, you can enable a VNC host using screen sharing, and can access it via either screen sharing or a normal VNC client by forwarding port 5900.
How can one set up a second VNC session? I want ...
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How to remotely access iMac without risk of lock out [closed]
I need to access my iMac (OS X 10.8.3) at work remotely (from my MacBook Pro, also running 10.8.3) without allowing other colleagues access to my system or view what I am doing.
Apple's remote ...
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Full screen enabled ipad to windows streaming VNC
I'm streaming my windows desktop with Splashtop Streamer to my iPad.
However it doesn't support full screen windows apps. Are there any apps which does support full screen windows apps?
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Where is Remote Desktop Connection for Mac in Office 2011?
I've just installed Office for Mac 2001 (v14.3.3), on this page (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client) it says "Remote Desktop Connection for Mac 2 is included with every edition of ...
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VNC to Tunneled Device via USB Error
How can I allow my system to let me vnc://127.0.0.1:5900 to a device attached to my system tunneled through usb using that port without giving me an error message "You cannot control your own screen" ...
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Update Adobe Flash in Mountain Lion with ARD
I'd like to use ARD to upgrade Adobe flash on a number of unattended workstations. When the Adobe installer downloads and installs flash, does it create one file that I could ARD to the other ...
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is there LogMeIn analog to see iPod Touch's screen?
Sending iPod Touch (4th generation) as a gift to a 77 y.o. not really computer-literate woman, and wondering is there some app I could install to be able to assist her if she's stuck with something ...
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Control Mac Remotely From Multiple Different Networks using only Apple Software
My girlfriend often needs assistance with her Mac, and I am not always around to help her. We are most often using our home WPA2 Personal Wi-Fi, but oftentimes one or both of us are connected to our ...
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Remote control mac using ARD or teamviewer with password lock?
I'm going to leave my main iMac in the office for a few days but I also need to access it remotely.
Currently I noticed I can only remotely access the mac with ARD or teamviewer if the iMac account ...
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Recommended Remote Desktop clients (Windows RDP) [duplicate]
I'm in search of a good Mac RDP client for connecting to Windows machines. I've tried all of the ones I can find (CoRD, MSFT RDP, Thinomenon). I like CoRD the best, but it doesn't work for me any ...
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Laggy TightVNC on iPad
I confess I'm not entirely sure where this belongs, since it's a cross platform issue.
I'm trying to use my iPad as a remote for my PC (which functions as my HTPC). I am using TightVNC on the PC ...
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set remote sharing prefs in terminal
I am admin for department and I want to batch change the "show remote management status in menu bar" so that I don't have to log in to each machine and set it.
I have ARD so I can run a terminal ...
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Screen mirroring and image resize
I have two questions about this topic.
1) Suppose my MBP is connected to the TV via HDMI (TV is 55 inch). Can I resize to, say 27 inch or anything less than the actual size of the TV?
2) I have two ...
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Ideal Screen Sharing Conditions
I realise what I am about to ask could be considered impossible to answer but maybe a discussion might be helpful to other people.
I am trying to use Screen Sharing (OS X 10.7.5) to control a Windows ...
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Can I remotely access my Mac from Linux using screen sharing?
I like to access my Mac from work (Linux) and I wonder if it is possible without installing additional software like TeamViewer or ChickenVNC. I also noticed somewhere that it is possible to wake my ...
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Adding Ricoh C4501 printer via command line - Installable options
I need to deploy one Ricoh MFP to ~50 Mac users. I thus wan't to do this through ARD/CLI. I'm looking for the correct lpoption tags for the Ricoh MP C4501. I want to set the "Finisher" (SR3020) and ...
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VNC (screen sharing) stopped worked after enabling filevault2
I used to vnc into my Mac mini (late 2012 model) with my MacBook Pro (mid 2011) before I enabled filevault2. Both macs are running mountain lion at this point. I can no longer screen share with my Mac ...
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How to clone user accounts via Apple Remote Desktop - Mountain Lion
I am trying to configure a middle school lab of 25 new iMacs running 10.8 Mountain Lion. I would have liked to have cloned them over the network, but we don't have a Mac server. Right now they are all ...
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Can I connect to my Mac via thin client?
I want a remote access to my Mac. I'm looking for a hardware solution - a thin client (zero client), PCoIP client - a hardware client, which can connects my Monitor/Keyboard/Mouse over network to my ...
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OSX multi-user remote login w/ GUI
I'm facing really weird problem: I need to give some restricted access to my OSX 10.8.2 to somebody who's using Windows. TeamView, VNC, Logmein, etc works fine if I'm not wanting to use my mac at the ...
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Problem with Chicken and keyboard
I use Chicken (ie Mac to Mac) to remotely control a Mac (in the same office, so fast ethernet connection). Quite often I get get as far as the login screen on the remote machine, but local keystrokes ...
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Can I update from Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server through Remote Desktop?
I currently have a Lion Server providing DHCP for my network, and access that server exclusively through screen sharing over Apple Remote Desktop. I would like to upgrade from Lion Server to Mountain ...
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How can I change the target resolution of a VNC Server
Here is my question: How can I change the geometry of a VNC Server on MacOS? All I want is to get some benefits from the fact that I'm connecting to remote 13' MacBook using 27' iMac.
As far as I ...
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How can I control a Mac through TS-Gateway?
I have a new Mac at the office. We have a pretty closed off firewall here but we allow people to work remotely through a TS-Gateway using RDP. For a client I use iTap as it supports the gateway very ...
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Builtin VNC stops working after waking headless Mac mini from sleep (black screen)
I'm running a Mac mini (late 2012) with OS X 10.8.2 as a media center PC and streaming server. It's not running 24/7 - instead I'm using a schedule to wake it up in the evening and putting it back to ...
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How Do I Access/Change OSX System Preferences Using SSH?
I currently have SSH enabled on my 2011 Mac Mini Lion Server. I want to be able to use a VNC Viewer to connect to it as well from my Windows 7 client. I've downloaded the RealVNC VNC Viewer and ...
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Can I use an iPhone to remote desktop to a PC, show the desktop on a TV with airplay, and use the iphone as a touchpad for the remote desktop?
I've seen descriptions of running an RDP client on the iPhone. I've also seen descriptions of using the iPhone as a touchpad/mouse replacement for a PC. But I haven't seen a description of a ...
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Mac Mini Server VNC from multiple windows users at once
I know I can log one user on from a windows server just not two.
There is a similar question but the answer did not include any specifics on how to do it.
Is there any way to use allow for multiple ...
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Detecting that a script is run within ARD
Does anyone know of a way to detect that a shell script is running within ARD (vs. running the same script locally on the machine)?
I looked at detecting that we are running in interactive mode - ...
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Root being controlled by ARD
I run an educational lab of 20 iMacs, all running Mac OS 10.7.5(11G63) with ARD version 3.6.2. My server and all of the iMacs run Lion. I seem to have crossed something and now my root user is being ...
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Remote desktop to Mac with broken graphics card
We have a mac with a broken graphicscard (Lots of stripes etc.)
Is there some way to run it remotely without being disturbed by the graphics card?
This is a iMac G5 (PowerPC with everything in the ...
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Can any iOS app remotely wake a sleeping MacBook Air when the lid is closed?
I want to be able to access my Macbook Air (Late-2011, Mountain Lion), when the lid is closed (in sleep mode), remotely from my iPhone 4GS.
I have tried using LogMeIn Ignition App but it does not ...
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AirPlay mirroring and media streaming between iOS and OSX
What would be a good solution to achieve these use cases: I would like to
use my iOS devices sort of as an extension to my iMac. I would like to access media (video, audio, pictures, pdf ...) I have ...
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With Microsoft RDP client, how do I mark a particular server certificate as trusted?
I am using Microsoft's RDC client on Mac OS X, to connect to a Windows server. I am connecting to a RDC server that uses a self-signed certificate to identify itself. As a consequence, when I ...
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login screen hangs when I try to switch users without disconnecting VNC client
I'm fast-user switched to the login screen. However, when I start to type my user name and password the keyboard input freezes before I am finished and I get the spinning beach ball and can't log in. ...
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How to enable Mountain Lion's built-in VNC server to accept 8bits color depth VNC connection?
I can open a VNC connection with 32/15 bits color depth. However, I'm not able to get it to work for a 8 bits color depth connection.
How can I enable Mountain Lion's built-in VNC server to accept ...
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Is is possible to use remote desktop to a Mac via direct cable or wireless?
I develop on Windows, but I need a Mac for iPhone development. So I'm thinking of getting a Mac mini or a MacBook for the Mac part, and connecting to it as needed from my Windows machine. A mini, in ...
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What is causing spurious mouse-5 events when using Magic Mouse in applications?
I recently switched to using an Apple Magic Mouse and have found that I am intermittently getting spurious mouse-5 events when moving the mouse. I've seen this in both Chicken of the VNC and Adobe ...
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Can't send commands in ARD/Automator
I work at a school that manages various computer labs, some of which are iMacs. To manage our iMac labs we use Automator/Apple Remote Desktop on a Mac Server.
Recently we updated ARD to the latest ...
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Use launchd to start VMware's VM on VNC connection
I have a VM (VMware Fusion) with enabled VNC access. I want to be able to access it from the network. Unfortunately, VMware requires VM to be running to be able to accept VNC connections and ...
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Remote access of an iPad display from another iPad
I've got an iPad and I was searching for new applications with new features. Currently I'm searching for an application by that I can remotely access another iPad screen just like Teamviewer.
Is ...
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Can I screen share an OS X computer to several viewers over VNC?
I want to give a demo to people remotely. I want them to be able to use any VNC client to view my current Mac desktop. Can I use the built-in screen sharing features to do that? I'm using Mountain ...
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RDP Client for Mac with File Copy&Paste Feature
Is there any RDP client, that allows to copy&paste files to/from host machine.
RDC for Windows (at least the last one) does it, RDC for Mac 2.1.1 does not.
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How to unlock a Mac that's been locked with Apple Remote Desktop's “curtain” screen lock
Apple Remote Desktop has a "curtain" feature that a remote client can use to lock the screen of the Mac that's being remotely controlled. I use this when I connect to my work Mac from my home Mac. ...
