Apple has Apple Remote Desktop, for which the client and server parts are already in the operating system, but for which the user interface is exposed fully by the paid ARD application.
BTMM (Back To My Mac) is a specific method for accessing services on a remote Mac with the help of Apple's infrastructure. It supports Screen Sharing as well as any other service, like file sharing, that is advertised using Bonjour. For what it is, it's pretty cool, but it does require that your home router support UPnP or NAT-PMP to work, which increasingly won't be the case now that public IP addresses are in short supply. I asked Apple Accessibility to take some feedback I had about ARD. My advice is don't bother, because you can't use the keyboard to grab or ungrab the controlling device; otherwise, it'd work as well as any other method requiring the audio be piped back to you, i.e. using Skype. Incidentally, it's also a real bummer for those running OS X Server, because operating a Mac completely headlessly when you're without sight turns out to be more-or-less impossible now that the Server app is on the Mac App Store. Cheers, Sabahattin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
