Remote Desktop

Not more than an iPod. It can use a similar harddrive. No interface but the screen and a stylus. With WiFi, it could be connected to your desktop or notebook Mac and you could remote control everything Apple with it. Your AirTunes or iPod WiFi but also your computer. ...

you can use a browser to share stuff as well, the process puts a remote disk on your desktop. ...

If that doesn't get you to your remote iDisk, then surely it will after turning off "Create a local copy of your iDisk" in the .Mac section of the System Preferences. ...

As one user on an exclusively Mac network, I can't help you on the MSN problem, I'm afraid, but getting apps to start, and even getting remote volumes to mount, at start-up/log on is a piece of cake. In your System Preferences, in the System section, click on "Accounts". If you have more than one user account set up on your Mac, select the one you want to modify from the...

users' and a few seconds later the app appears on the X11 desktop as though it is running locally. Bit sluggish but it does the job. ...

I am running Timbukto Pro for Mac to see if it will suit my remote connecting needs. By it's feature set I have no doubt that it will if I can get it working. ...

I just setup my Airport Express that I got "refreshed" from the Apple Store for $115 ... a deal, that I ended up spending too much time figuring out how to reset to factory defaults before I was able to configure it and get it working ... so much for the "refreshing" ... IT'S AWESOME!!! I love being able to stream from iTunes on my PowerBook, or from iTunes on my Windows...

works or not. No reason it shouldn't so if you have a desktop serving up the majority of your music and you have users on laptops, this sounds like the way to go for shared remote control... ...

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. ...