On Jan 25, 2006, at 9:42 AM, CR wrote:
Clark,
I believe I'm jumping into the middle of this thread
but do these apps allow (or are the intended to allow)
one to connect two computers over the Internet? or just a LAN.?
Depends on what you mean by 'connect'. They're both applications that
will allow one computer to connect to the other and control it,
showing the remote screen on the computer, in addition they allow
file sharing, and some installation stuff.
Timbuktu has been doing this for years and years.
If not the Internet, are there apps that do, or how does one?
You don't even need to buy anything.
VNC does most everything Timbuktu and Apple Remote Desktop (which is,
in fact based partly on VNC) and it's free: <http://www.realvnc.com/>
AND it works on a huge number of clients...if you really wanted to,
you could control your mac from a network connected Palm Pilot...
Support for VNC is built in to 10.4:
<http://www.macminicolo.net/Mac_VNC_tutor.html>
For older version of OS X Redstone Software offers OSXVNC <http://
www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html>
Chicken of the VNC is a widely used client for OS X: <http://
sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/>
Mike Bombich (of Carbon Copy Cloner fame) has a nifty little helper
app for Redstones OSX VNC Server called "Share My Desktop" <http://
www.bombich.com/software/smd.html>
And my usual plug: If you have to control a PC running Windows XP or
XP or 2000 Server, Microsoft's Remote Desktop Client cannot be beat.
<http://tinyurl.com/3vqv7>
It's only drawback is that you can only have a single connection at a
time, but it allows file sharing between clients (the Mac's mounted
volumes show up in My Computer on the Windows machine.)
There's an X-windows solution which is marginally faster, and allows
multiple systems to be connected at once (like the PC version of
Remote Desktop Connection) Rdesktop <http://www.rdesktop.org/>
It's only available as source code, so you need the Developer tools
installed. If anyone wants I can detail the installation and setup
for them.
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