Software that allows a remote user to see and/or control a computer.
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Screen Sharing won't allow me to paste into remote system
I am connected to a remote system via Screen Sharing. I have text (plaintext) on my clipboard locally. I am unable to paste into the remote system. How can I make this work? Here are some details:
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Skewed Log In Screen When Screen Sharing
Trying to use a Mac Pro as a headless media server. Worked just fine when I had a monitor or TV hooked up to it, but now that I've tried to remove a monitor and use it headless, I get a skewed log-in ...
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Web-based screensharing applications that works with MacOS 10.5 Leopard?
Using MacOS 10.5 Leopard, I want to be able to share my screen with others during a meeting so the people I'm talking to can easily see my screen through a web browser. A free solution would be ...
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Remote Ubuntu Screen sharing from Mac
I want to connect to an Ubuntu machine from MAC far far away! I have the application Remoter that works like a charm for ssh and connecting to other Mac. However I don't know how to connect to an ...
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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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Can Teleport set up be automated?
I've got two macs and I only use one keyboard and mouse thanks to teleport, the problem is that I have to activate it every time I turn my computer on. Would it be possible to do it automatically?
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Unable to to use screen sharing to connect to OS X Lion Server, but SSH and other admin tools work
My mac mini with OS X Lion Server 10.7.4 is running headless in a data center so its not physically accessible. As administrator, I can connect to the server using SSH and other administration tools, ...
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How to fix problems with different keyboard layouts in iChat screen sharing?
My Mac has a QWERTY keyboard. When someone with a Mac with an AZERTY keyboard shared their screen with me in iChat, I had to pretend I was typing on an AZERTY keyboard to make any text I was typing ...
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Can't use “Back to My Mac” screen sharing using iCloud ID in Lion
Screensharing is broken for me in Lion. In Snow Leopard I connected using mobileme for verification. However since upgrading my machines to Lion and my mobileme ID to iCloud, I'm unable to screenshare ...
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Configuring Lion VNC Server: virtual display by default?
The new Screen Sharing server in Lion supports multiple concurrent log-ins: if there is already someone logged into the computer when you try to connect with VNC, it gives you the option of logging ...
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screen sharing turns on remote monitor
When I connect to my work computer with screen sharing, the work computer's screen turns on and shows what im doing. I lock the work machine and turn off its display.
Is there a way to prevent the ...
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Get rid of little circles on Teleport
I've installed Teleport in order to use two macs with one keyboard and mouse, but when I change of screen there apper some little red circles like a trail of the mouse. Is it possible to get rid of ...
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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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screen sharing stops working
Periodically my screen sharing stops working. When I try to connect nothing happens.
telnet 5900 connects but I don't get the normal "RFB 003.889" prompt back.
reboot seems to resolve it, but it ...
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“Menulet” for RemoteDesktop (Screen Sharing) no longer appears
My system is OS X Lion 10.7.4
The menu icon ('menulet') for Remote Desktop that used to appear when another host had connected
via Screen Sharing is no longer appearing.
In Googling, it appears that ...
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Screen Sharing works only one way
I can share my Mountain Lion screens to another Lion MBP in my office. However, I cannot seem to get the Lion MBP to share out its screen to the Mountain Lion MBP. Both computer have the exact same ...
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Screen sharing issues
I have 2 macs and often screen share. It works once then disconnects after a while and we cannot reconnect until we restart one of the laptops and then even that doesn't always work. We are on wifi on ...
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Why does my Mac-to-Mac Screen Sharing video stall?
I have two OS X Lion systems, the desktop I use is a Mac mini running 10.7.3, the server I'm working on is a Mac Pro running 10.7.2.
Note that the Mac Pro is not actually running the OS X Lion Server ...
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How can I access the remote clipboard when Screen Sharing into a Linux system
I am using Screen Sharing to do vnc to my work computer running Linux,
however the Edit -> Cut,Copy, Paste,Delete commands are all greyed out.
Is there some way to enable these options ?
On a ...
