nun.netlify.com

One of the coolest advantages to a network is the ability to take control of one computer from another computer. For example, sometimes you might need to access files on your Mac Pro desktop while you’re on a trip, but you don’t have File Sharing enabled. What can you do?

1. Powerpoint Remote Control For Mac
2. Remote Control For Mac Mini
3. Remote Control For Macbook Pro

Apple sells Apple Remote Desktop on the Mac App Store for $80, but you don’t have to spend any money to remotely connect to your Mac. There are free solutions — including one built into your Mac. Manage Mac computers on your network with Apple Remote Desktop (ARD). Learn more with these resources.

Beneath its deceptively simple design lies a powerful virus cleaner that works in real-time to detect and remove not only Mac-specific viruses and spyware, but PC and mobile threats, too. So AVG AntiVirus not only helps protect all that’s important on your Mac, it also prevents you from infecting. Virus scanner for macbook.

You can remotely connect into your Mac Pro and then enable File Sharing. Perhaps you have a file on your computer with someone’s phone number that you suddenly need on the road. With remote control, it’s at your fingertips!

Control your Mac with multimedia controls, keyboard, mouse, app and system actions & AirPlay controls. Take full control of your Mac from anywhere in your home or office. Tired of sitting on the couch, having to handle keyboard and mouse on your lap to control your media center Mac? Use Remote Control on your iPhone as a trackpad and keyboard. Jun 06, 2016  The best way to remote-access a Mac from an iPad (including the new iPad Pro) is to use a free program called Google Chrome Remote. With Google Chrome Remote you can remotely use Mac OS X programs. Either select, All Users, which means any other device on your network, or Mac you own, can access and connect, or click the Add button(+), which gives you the ability to select who can have remote access and/or control. If you are using a VPN or VNC viewer and want to access your Mac remotely, you will need to setup a password first. Connecting to a remote Mac system from a Windows OS can be complicated. The VNC Viewer in the Dameware Remote Support (DRS) software’s Remote Connect dialog makes it easy to connect from Windows OS to Mac OS X and send keyboard and mouse inputs remotely from one computer to the other. Use VNC Viewer to remotely control Mac computers, see.

How to use Screen Sharing on your MacBook

Lion’s Screen Sharing feature, which is available from iChat, can be turned on for individual users from the Sharing pane in System Preferences. You can allow access for all user accounts on your MacBook or limit remote access to selected users. Screen Sharing is Apple’s implementation of Virtual Network Computing (VNC) technology.

To set up Screen Sharing, follow these steps:

1. Click the System Preferences icon in the Dock.

2. Click the Sharing icon to open the Sharing Preferences pane.

3. Click the Screen Sharing check box to select it.

4. To limit remote access for specific accounts, click the Only these users radio button, and click the Add button (which bears a plus sign) to select a user.

5. Close the System Preferences window to save the change.

After you’ve enabled screen sharing, you can use the Buddies→Share My Screen menu item in iChat to share your screen with another person. To view another person’s screen, use the Buddies→ Share Remote Screen menu item.

Remotely control your MacBook

Virtual Network Computing (or VNC, available for many platforms at RealVNC) is a very nice application that enables you to remotely control a computer from pretty much anywhere that has an Internet connection. VNC is easy to install and configure, and it runs on many different platforms, ranging from Windows 7 and UNIX on desktop computers and servers to iPhones, iPads, and Windows CE on personal digital assistants (PDAs).

Wrap your mind around this: You could be at a friend’s house on her wireless network and use your iPhone to remotely control your MacBook at home over the Internet.

Some networks have proxies and firewalls that might interfere with VNC’s operation. You can remotely control a computer that’s behind a firewall or cable/DSL router, but the firewall/router needs to be configured properly. Because the process varies from one manufacturer to the next, check your cable/DSL router manual for instructions on how to do this.

How VNC works

In a nutshell, VNC takes the graphical interface on your monitor, turns it into data, and sends it to the computer that you’re using to remotely control it. The computer that you’re using sends keyboard presses, trackpad movements, and clicks to it, acting just the same way as it would if you were sitting right in front of it.

You can use Lion’s Screen Sharing feature in iChat to make a remote connection from another Mac to your MacBook. However, you’re not limited to using just another Mac using Lion and Screen Sharing in iChat — you can control your MacBook from a Windows PC, or from an older version of Mac OS X as well! If you’ve already enabled Screen Sharing, follow these steps to enable any VNC connection:

1. Click the System Preferences icon in the Dock.

2. Click the Sharing icon to open the Sharing Preferences pane.

3. Click the Screen Sharing entry.

4. Click the Computer Settings button.

5. Click the VNC Viewers May Control Screen with Password check box to select it.

6. Click within the password text box and enter a password for VNC applications.

7. Click OK to exit the Computer Settings sheet, and close the System Preferences window to save the changes.

Remote control of another computer from your MacBook

A few different VNC viewers exist for Mac OS X. A VNC viewer is just an application you use to remotely control another computer running VNC. You can download them at RealVNC. If you find yourself on a computer without a VNC viewer — heaven forbid — VNC server actually runs over the Web as well!

As long as the computer that you’re using has a Web browser that supports Java — which Safari does — you can still remotely control your computer. (You may have to download the Java runtime package from the Apple website. Click in the website Search box and type Java runtime to locate the latest version.)

When you connect to the computer running VNC using a Web browser, the Web server sends a default page that contains a Java applet. That Java applet asks you for the password to connect; upon entering the correct password, it brings up the remote control session right in the Web browser.

[Update 08/22/2018:macOS Mojave Kills Back to My Mac Network Feature]

Have you ever been away from your home or office Mac and suddenly realized that you a) left it on when you meant to shut it down, b) tried to run a report or access a system only available from that machine, or c) want to grab a file that you haven’t yet moved to the cloud? Today we’ll take a look at three ways to remotely access a Mac, something that can save you from making an unnecessary trip as we near Earth Day 2017.

Back to My Mac
Back to My Mac is a feature of iCloud that lets you access a network of Mac computers — or just one — from another Mac. If you just need files or folders from the remote Mac, you can drag them to your local Mac. Need to control that remote Mac as if you were sitting right in front of it? Back to My Mac gives you a way to use your local keyboard and mouse or trackpad to launch apps and edit documents on the remote machine.

The best thing about Back to My Mac? There’s no price tag on this solution — it’s part of iCloud and macOS. You’ll just need two or more Macs using the same iCloud account (OS X Lion 10.7.5 or later), an AirPort base station or another Wi-Fi router that supports UPnP or NAT-PMP, AirPort Utility 6.3 or later, a fairly fast Internet connection, and a firewall that allows remote connections. For those who work in offices, be sure to ask permission to use Back to My Mac and check with your network administrator to find out if the firewall will support Back to My Mac connections.

Here’s how to set up Back to My Mac on the Mac(s) you wish to access:

1) Launch System Preferences, then click iCloud

2) Sign into iCloud if you haven’t already done so

3) Select Back to My Mac from the list of iCloud services (see image below)

4) You may be asked to follow some setup instructions. If so, be sure to follow those instructions precisely.

5) Apple has a published set of security options that are good to follow when setting up Back to My Mac.

6) Note that you can also set up an AirPort base station with an attached hard disk drive or a Time Capsule for remote access using Back to My Mac. To do this from a Mac on the same network as the AirPort base station, launch AirPort Utility (in the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder), select the AirPort or Time Capsule, and then click Edit. Log into the base station with your base station password (not your iCloud or Mac password), then select the Base Station tab. In the Back to My Mac section, click the + (plus sign) button, then enter the Apple ID and password you’ll use with Back to My Mac. When a green status indicator appears, Back to My Mac is turned on. Click Update to save your changes on the base station.

Now, from your Mac, gaining access to the remote Mac or AirPort base station is a snap.

1) From the Finder menu, choose Preferences, then click the Sidebar tab

2) In the Shared section, make sure that Back to My Mac is checked

3) Open a Finder window and look for the Shared section in the sidebar (see image above). Sometimes the shared computers or base stations are hidden; if so, place your cursor over the word “Shared” and click the Show button that appears.

4) Select the remote Mac or base station you want to access, then click Connect As. To control the remote device, select the Mac and click the Share Screen button:

As you can see from the image above, a set of control buttons is available in the pane directly above the shared screen. Clicking the Control button allows full control of the device, or you can simply view the remote screen by clicking the “binoculars” button. The next set of buttons shows the remote Mac desktop in its full size (left button) or scaled to fit the window on your local Mac. Finally, the Clipboard button provides a way to get or send data from or to a clipboard that is shared between the remote and local Macs.

When your Back to My Mac session is complete, simply close the window for the remote Mac by clicking the “red dot” (close button) in the upper left corner of the window.

Apple Remote Desktop
Back to My Mac is perfect for situations where you may have one or two Macs that you need to remotely access or control. For system administrators or support personnel, you may have dozens or hundreds of Macs that you could theoretically need access to. Apple has had an application called Apple Remote Desktop for many years that is useful for support.

Available in the Mac App Store for $79.99, Apple Remote Desktop has sadly been somewhat ignored in recent years and currently has a very low rating in the store’s reviews. Once set up, Apple Remote Desktop not only provides a way for support personnel to control remote Macs with a simple double-click of the computer name on a list of all available Macs, but also has features for creating inventories of those machines, performing remote updates and upgrades, and so on.

The screenshot above shows that Apple Remote Desktop uses a very similar interface to Back to My Mac when remotely accessing or controlling a Mac, although the way that the sharing sessions are started is quite different.

Parallels Access
The third method I’ll discuss today is Parallels Access, applications and service provided by the same company that makes the Parallels Desktop virtual machine environment. The best thing about Parallels Access is that once the client application is installed on the remote Mac, it can be accessed from just about any computer — and that means any device with a web browser or any iPhone, iPad or Android device.

The Parallels Access client can be set up to automatically launch when your Mac is rebooted, so any time the Mac is turned on, it’s available for remote access or control. Then using the free app on an iPhone or iPad (see image above) or a web browser logged into a Parallels account on the Parallels.com website (see screenshot below), simply use your Mac user name password to log onto the device.

A Parallels Access account can be purchased for as little as $19.99 per year, which allows one user to connect to up to 5 computers from any number of mobile devices, and there are plans for businesses as well.

Note that there are a variety of other solutions available for accessing or controlling remote Macs. A search for VNC (Virtual Node Controller) on the Mac App Store shows a variety of applications that can be used. I’ve chosen these three methods as they provide a cross-section of the remote access and control solutions that are available.

Back to My Mac is free and very useful for those who may have a desktop Mac at one location and would like to use a MacBook to access it. Apple Remote Desktop is targeted towards those who are system administrators or support personnel, although the application seems to have been abandoned by Apple. Parallels Access is very useful from almost any type of mobile device or even just a web browser.

Powerpoint Remote Control For Mac

If there’s a remote access and control solution that you prefer, please let other readers of the Rocket Yard know about it in the comments section below.

Remote Control For Mac Mini

Be Sociable, Share This!

Remote Control For Macbook Pro