Remote Desktop Mac

When somebody logs into the mac, the drive appears on thier desktop, it can be seen in folders and will correctly mount on remote machines. It does appear to unmount when they log out breaking any network shares. ...

i use VNC to admin a remote linux box that has KDE as the desktop environment. VNC by nature is a little sluggish, even on a local network. sure, i could use ssh to compress it, but then it's only slightly sluggish but choppy. ...

And yes, the desktop environments and how they interact with the actual OS can leave something to be desired. ...

it will put an icon on your desktop, and will act as a remote folder. If you wanted to start your computer with this this enabled, you could write a simple AppleScript and throw it in your startup. ...

Sounds like you have plenty of bandwidth to go around, so you're probably more limited by CPU/video speed. VNC is pretty hardware intensive and once you reach the threshold of having enough bandwidth to do things, the CPU becomes the bottleneck. Some tips to increase speed - make sure you set your VNC client, the local machine, and the serving computer to all use the same...

The main problem is it's CPU. It's a 75mhz 603, which was the budget CPU of that time. It's actually the slowest existing Mac to date with a PowerPC processor, seriously, it's much slower than the 60mhz 601. ...

So I found an alias of the remote drive in question in the Servers folder inside the System Folder. ...

You will always have to have the remote machine on before doing this, otherwise your mac will fail to load any desktop. ...

DOS screen plasterded over top of my usual OSX desktop and other applictaions that are open. It clobbers only a portion of the screen. The rest stays up in full color. ...

display dialog "Remote Mac Should be awake! ...