Take Control of Screen Sharing in Leopard

Start Screen Sharing Via iChat

You can use iChat to either share someone else's screen or share your own screen with someone else in one of two ways: the first works with someone already in your buddy list, a list of contacts you have marked; the second works with any qualified AIM or iChat user running Leopard, or any local user using Bonjour in iChat.

Tip

You can control the use of Bonjour to advertise your availability in iChat over a local network in iChat preferences in the Accounts pane (choose iChat > Preferences). Select the Bonjour item in the Accounts list, and check Use Bonjour Instant Messaging at the right. You can set automatic login when you launch iChat just as you can for an Internet-based IM account.

To start a screen-sharing session, ...