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Using Mac Screen Sharing With Windows
By A.P. Lawrence
Expert Author
Article Date: 2008-01-04
Mac's new Leopard OS X has added a "Screen Sharing" capability.
For Mac A to control Mac B's screen, Mac B simply has to turn on Screen Sharing in System Preferences->Sharing.
Mac B will show up in Mac A's sidebar in Finder Windows, and clicking on that will offer a "Share Screen" button that let's you connect.
But what about connecting to a Windows box?
Well, how about this:
That's Mac Screen Sharing connecting to a TightVNC server on my wife's Windows XP machine (click it for a larger image).
I'm looking at QuickBooks and wondering why I haven't made any money so far this month.. oh, yeah, I've been goofing off this week - that'll do it!
To make that connection from Finder, I just clicked "Go->Connect to Server" and typed in "vnc://10.10.1.2" (that machine's IP address).
That's it, and of course if ports were open, I could have just as easily done that across the Internet.
That last part is very important to me for supporting customers who haven't made other arrangements for remote access: I send them to the TightVNC site, help them adjust their router to forward 5900 inward to that machine, and that's all I need.
By the way, TightVNC gives a link to this Port Forwarding site.
I haven't tried that out with a live customer yet, but if their router is on the list there, it looks like I could just have the customer reconfigure their router semi-automatically.. gosh, that could save a lot of confusion.
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*Originally published at APLawrence.com
About the Author:
A.P. Lawrence provides SCO Unix and Linux consulting services http://www.pcunix.com
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