Hi, I'm sorry I did not give enough information. I have a 2013 Mac Pro, so my monitor is separate. I have a spare (HDMI) port on the monitor, so I can connect that to the HDMI port on the 2013 MacBook Pro. My monitor can switch between inputs, though it involves several menu selections to go back and forth. I just thought that clicking on an entry in the Airplay menu icon would be simpler and easier, if that were possible.
I was hoping that Airplay would allow one mac to mirror its screen on a second mac, but apparently Airplay only allows a mac to mirror its screen on a TV or monitor connected to an Apple TV. Is that correct? As for screen sharing, since both the laptop (with the smaller screen) and the desktop (with the larger screen) are both on my local network, in theory couldn't I simply use Apple's screen sharing app rather than a third party app such as AnyDesk? In the past, I used Back To My Mac via my iCloud account and it worked great. However, Apple recently did away with Back To My Mac, and the systems people at work got a lot stricter about screen sharing. If I connect to work using VPN, I can share the screen of the iMac at work with the MacBook Pro at home. The iMac's screen is what I really want to share on my personal Mac Pro (with the large monitor). However, screen sharing between a work computer and a personal computer is not allowed, and I cannot VPN to work from my personal computer. Anyway, I was just thinking that if I could enlarge my laptop's screen by mirroring it on the Mac Pro's monitor via Airplay, that would help. However, it sounds as if that is not possible, so I will probably just go back to the HDMI cable or continue to squint at the tiny shared screen of the iMac on the laptop. I should probably invest in a thunderbolt dock, which I assume would allow me to share the mouse and keyboard as well as the monitor. I was just hoping to avoid spending hundreds of dollars on a thunderbolt dock and thunderbolt cables if I could somehow use what I already have. Thanks, Gregg -----Original Message----- From: Macs R We <[email protected]> Date: Friday, May 15, 2020 at 6:43 PM To: "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]" <[email protected]> Cc: X Talk <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Airplay question Throughout all of this explanation, you never really give us an idea of whether your desktop monitor is a separate unit, as you would have in a Mini, or an integrated unit, as you would have in an iMac. I have a mini with a separate screen, and an HDMI switch so that I can do the whole job with just a single thunderbolt cable. But I gather that won't satisfy you. The only alternative I can think of is for you to install a remote service screen sharing program such as AnyDesk on both of your machines, and then have your home machine screen-share your laptop. It's clunky, and there will probably be some lag, but it's the only thing I can think of that would serve the wireless requirement. > On May 15, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm sure this is a dumb question, but here goes. I know that Airplay can be > used to send video from any of my Macs to my TV via my Apple TV. For > example, I use this setup to watch live streaming concerts, as it provides a > larger screen and better audio. > > Can I do something similar to show my relatively small laptop screen on my > relatively large desktop monitor? > > The reason I ask is that I can only connect to my employer's network via the > laptop that they supply. For some work tasks, it would be much nicer to see > things on the larger screen, especially since I am already screen sharing > from my computer at work to my laptop at home, so a lot of things are too > small for my old eyes. I can connect the laptop to the desktop's monitor > with an HDMI cable, but I'd rather not mess around with extra cables and > toggling back and forth. Is there an easy way to do this wirelessly (i.e., > view my laptop's screen on my desktop's monitor), such as with Airplay? > > Thanks, > > Gregg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
