Remote Desktop

part of Tiger's and Leopard's Remote Management component. ...

Addendum: You might want to read http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/06/20/flaw-in-apple-remote-desktop-exploited-via-trojan and then take the steps listed there if you are really paranoid.

Also, is it possible to change the listening port for Mac's remote desktop? ...

That would work, provided you use port forwarding on the router and send requests to given port numbers from outside to the remote desktop port on each respoective Mac. What type of router does the office network use? ...

I'm installing Leopard on my stepsister's PowerBook G4 (I am booting and can't acquire any more hardware details at the moment) but am encountering a problem. After a drop or two in its history, the DVD drive seems to be seeking back and forth forever. It's been at the purple boot screen for about 10 minutes now with the same behaviour, beachball and all (which responds to...

I'm looking for an app, similar to evocam (http://www.evological.com/evocam.html) but which will work under OS 10.3 All I really need is something to remotely access (my own) iSight camera without having to, as I currently do, open a Quicktime Video Record window over Apple Remote Desktop :/ It can be simple as mud, I don't need any bells or whistles.

it via Apple Remote Desktop. I have had no problems until adding the 2nd eMac and changing the computer which acts as the router. ...

Hi Christian, http://osxdaily.com/2007/10/29/how-to-add-a-user-from-the-os-x-command-line-works-with-leopard/ has the details for creating the new user with command line. When using single user mode, you can skip the sudo part. niutil -appendprop . /groups/admin users yourusernamehere for 10.4... Set up the new user, and you can make it add remote desktop or VNC,...

Hi Ocheyan, you do get a question when you have the others to connect or try to help you e.g. with Remote Desktop (unless you or an admin would have set the privileges to hide it). If in doubt which services in sharing to keep enabled, keep them off. Remote login - keep it off unless YOU need to access your computer remotely. Remote Desktop etc - keep them off, except...

If you Remote desktop or VNC to a computer, only one user will be able to use the Mac (or PC) at a time. So the closest you can do is install Fusion or Parallels, and run multiple virtual machines in bridge mode with VNC enabled, so one user can connect to Mac and do something, other users can connect to e.g. XP or Ubuntu and run Photoshop or GIMP there and so on.