I have a friend who uses a pc running Windows Vista, and I use a macbook running Snow Leopard. Is there any way I can control their screen from mine? We're not on the same network or anything, I mean simply through our internet connections. Thank you in advance for the help
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Do you want him to see what you're doing, or are you taking it over for tech support purposes?
Depending on how good their internet firewall/router is, you could do this:
This gets you complete control of the system, the ability to access it from the outside, from anywhere. It secures it a little by using 3390 instead of 3389, etc.
It sounds complicated, but I have done this on my mom's PC so that I can hit it from my Mini. She's 500 miles away.
If you just want to really share and use his machine while he's watching, I think you can use Skype for that.
Depending on how good their internet firewall/router is, you could do this:
- Install Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection on your Mac
- On his router, set port 3390 on the outside IP to pass to port 3389 on the inside IP
- Make sure there's a password on the account you're connecting to
- Make sure Remote Desktop is enabled on his machine
- From your end, open RDC, point at 1.2.3.4:3390 (filling in his IP instead)
This gets you complete control of the system, the ability to access it from the outside, from anywhere. It secures it a little by using 3390 instead of 3389, etc.
It sounds complicated, but I have done this on my mom's PC so that I can hit it from my Mini. She's 500 miles away.
If you just want to really share and use his machine while he's watching, I think you can use Skype for that.
Thanks for the fast replies, Teamviewer works pretty good so far. I did use Remote Desktop before, but I do want the person to be able to see what I'm doing, and skype doesn't work quite right for me when going between mac and windows for some reason.