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Take Control of Screen Sharing in Leopard
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Take Control of Screen Sharing in Leopard

by Glenn Fleishman
June 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
88 pages
2h 11m
English
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Apple Remote Desktop

Designed mostly for academic and corporate environments, Apple Remote Desktop (often called ARD) lets an administrator control several or dozens of computers (http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop). You can see all the screens in a group at once, control a screen to provide support, or push your screen to one or more members of the group. It's also used for installing software remotely and limiting how a computer can be used.

ARD is intercompatible with Screen Sharing in Leopard, as they both use the same underlying VNC technology. However, you must check a box in either of two places to allow remote VNC access in Leopard.

To set Leopard up for ARD, in the Sharing preference pane, check either the Remote Management service or the ...

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