Remote Desktop?
What is remote desktop, and how do I activate it?
I saw this comment in another thread... "Considering you could get a G5 with Cinema Display for the price of a 17-inch PowerBook, I think the combination of a PowerMac G5 with an iBook would make much more sense. You could always run remote desktop from the iBook if you need the power of the G5 away from your desk within your home.", by Escher.
Les.
EDIT: The title should be "Remote Desktop", not "Remore Desktop"... it is cold down here and my fingers aren't working well.
I saw this comment in another thread... "Considering you could get a G5 with Cinema Display for the price of a 17-inch PowerBook, I think the combination of a PowerMac G5 with an iBook would make much more sense. You could always run remote desktop from the iBook if you need the power of the G5 away from your desk within your home.", by Escher.
Les.
EDIT: The title should be "Remote Desktop", not "Remore Desktop"... it is cold down here and my fingers aren't working well.
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i know it's been through a couple of revisions, though the very first major one was to compensate for the major changes in jaguar from puma (10.1). i don't know if they have added any extra features since then, other than allowing for a single disk image to become a template for installing many macs at once (for example, you run a computer lab, and have 50 user license codes for all your major apps. install it once on the administrator mac, make a disk image, and then tell, via remote desktop, all the other macs to install just like this disk image. voila! instant network reinstall (well, okay, more like leave-for-the-evening-and-if-you're-lucky-everything-went-smoothly-by-morning). but it is not something you can activate without having bought remote desktop from apple.
works great...
there is a 10 client license ($149 edu $299 retail) and an unlimited license ($299 edu $499 retail)
the client is installed in every 10.3 installation but you need to have the admin package installed to make use of it.
to activate it go to the sharing pref pane click on apple remote desktop and click on access privileges... if you enable it your computer now can be seen by ARD admin clients and if they have your l/p they can add your computer to their list...
this allows them to do whatever you allow them to do in the aforementioned section in system preferences...
Les.
if you want to share processors you might want to take a look at Xgrid
Is Xgrid a free download? And also is it for Mc's only, or could you use it between a mac and a PC?
Les
PS. Thanks, by the way, for all the great information.
Originally posted by les t
EDIT: The title should be "Remote Desktop", not "Remore Desktop"... it is cold down here and my fingers aren't working well.
I've fixed that for you