My Server far away
My Server far away
2008
Every Mac has Remote Control built-in:
Every OSX client workstation has the software to act as a remote control server built-in. Note that the server is the part which shares his desktop; and the client (or Admin as Apple calls it) is the part which receives/controls the server.
In order to remotely manage your OSX workstation, all you need to do is click the “Apple Remote Desktop” (ARD) checkbox for under “Sharing” in “System Preferences”.

By default ARD shares only for ARD Admins; but if you click the “Access Privileges” button, you can enter a password for VNC clients: it should be different from your account.

How to control your Mac:
We have two choices here:
• you can buy the ARD Admin software from Apple
• you can download free VNC Admin software
• ThightVNC is free (open-source hosted on sourcecorge.net)
To control my Mac from a Windows PC I am using the TightVNC Viewer 1.2.9; as I could not get UltraVNC 1.0.1 to work with the Mac server.
How to restart the VNC server:
In order for SSH to work, you must have previously enabled the “Remote Login” option (refer to Sharing above) SSH client and server are built into OSX.
ssh user@192.168.1.4
sudo kill -9 `ps ax|grep VNC -m1|awk '{print $1}'`
Note that kill -9 will gracefully shutdown and restart the VNC service
How to re-map the ARD port:
1) use the ARD manager tool to configure another port
2) or use a GUI firewall manager
http://www.hanynet.com/waterroof/
3)or forward ARD to another port using firewall manager
fwd 127.0.0.1,5900 tcp from any to me dst-port 5901
ARD port redirection:
If you wish to access your Mac at home while on the road; then you must open these ports in your firewall. Because your broadband connection has only one IP address, you redirect incoming packets on these ports to the internal IP address of your computer.
This is the rule I am using to connect using VNC (both = TCP+UDP)
ARD1 3283 to 3283 both 192.168.1. 3 YES
ARD2 5900 to 5988 both 192.168.1. 3 YES
OSX: RemoteDesktop and VNC
3/23/08
From a desk located anywhere in the world you can manage your Mac.
An if you are like me, you may find yourself in places without a Mac nearby. But do not despair- you can connect to your Mac from any PC.