You're welcome Bob.
May I conclude from the above that if I have mom...
1. Check the box for Apple Remote Desktop in Preferences > Sharing,
and
2. Check the box for <On> in the resulting window and also check all
the
other boxes that appear in that window, then click <OK>...
...that her Mac is now "armed and ready", so to speak, in the same
fashion it would be had she turned on Share My Desktop?
YES! Apple made it that easy on a recent update - tres cool. Since she is at
the other end, it'll be a charge for her to see you control her mac. Don't
forget to set up the password.
If that's the case then, in other words, Apple Remote Desktop is a
replacement for Share My Desktop, no?
Yeehaww yes!
Do I then run Chicken, fill in her IP address and connect?
Cooking with chicken -
#1 -- insert ip address of mom's location (generally speaking of course, I
take it that you've got this part solid)
#2 -- insert default port for Apple Remote Desktop -- 5900 (on some VNC apps
you will be inserting IP.ADD.RE.SS::PORT, i.e. 24.112.23.111::5900)
#3 -- definitely use a password, and also - does mom have a hardware
firewall (i.e. router/gateway)? If her connection is direct from DSL/CABLE
modem to her Mac, then her OS X will handle the firewall. If not, then the
router needs to manage the forwarding of port 5900 to the Mac's local
network IP address as I mentioned in my first post.
#4 -- click shared display and save password, also, have mom set her desktop
to 640x480
#5 -- connect! After seeing how it goes, try adjusting her display
properties while you are in control, you will see the results of your
experiments immediately and find the sweet spot.
What about Password? Is any needed?
Definitely -- her computer is wide open for outside control, especially with
all of the options checked in the Apple Remote Desktop access privileges
panel.
Thanks **so** much for this info. In all my searching around for a
solution, no one ever mentioned the on-board Apple Remote Desktop as
an
option.
No problem - happy to share, I love it. I've bought a tablet PC on eBay to
use for a VNC client to control both my cube and my desktop PC. I caught the
ARD 'cause it was mentioned oh so briefly when the update occurred and I may
have found more info on it through some research regarding chicken of the
vnc.
stein
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