Apple Remote Desktop Questions

[djasmooth]

How's it going? I'm not sure if this is in the right section, but I was wondering, since I work at an online radio station, I would like all the staff and members to access the studio computer from their houses just in case of any problems, would it be possible to set this up or can you only use this software for computers locally? Is it possible to do this from having the computer miles away?

Thanks

[MooneyFlyer]

There are a number of other free and paid solutions available such as Logmein.com (my personal choice), Teamviewer, gotomypc, etc. that work regardless of whether someone is on a pc or Mac.

The free features have some limitations when compared to the paid versions but should probably be adequate.

[djasmooth]

Thanks!

But is there any way I can use ARD?

[djasmooth]

I forgot to mention I am looking to get ARD 3 - not the free one that's pre-installed

[MooneyFlyer]

Sorry, I didn't even bother to respond to your original question. I attempted to get it working at one point but had trouble when outside of my network (ie, traveling and trying to get back into my home Mac). There are certainly ways to do it from what I've read but I gave up and used logmein.com.

[Alrescha]

I would like all the staff and members to access the studio computer from their houses just in case of any problems, would it be possible to set this up or can you only use this software for computers locally? Is it possible to do this from having the computer miles away?


If you can ssh to the machine (you know it's IP address and the ssh port is allowed in through the router/firewall), then you can tunnel Screen Sharing via the ssh connection (non-Mac users could use a VNC client).

You mentioned ARD, but it's not clear what features of ARD you want that aren't available in Screen Sharing.

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[Matthew Yohe]

I forgot to mention I am looking to get ARD 3 - not the free one that's pre-installed

Why would you want to use ARD and not the one that is pre installed?

Do you really want a bunch of people installing ARD on their home machines? Just use Screen Sharing that comes with Leopard.

Setup Screen Sharing on the station's Mac, and forward the port out to the internet (5900), and that's it. People can connect even through safari by going to vnc://<ip address here>

[guzhogi]

Why would you want to use ARD and not the one that is pre installed?

Do you really want a bunch of people installing ARD on their home machines? Just use Screen Sharing that comes with Leopard.

Setup Screen Sharing on the station's Mac, and forward the port out to the internet (5900), and that's it. People can connect even through safari by going to vnc://<ip address here>

I use ARD at work & the paid version really helps. If I need to push a file to multiple computers, observe any number of computers, it's great. The built-in screen sharing is good, but has its limitations.