Vnc For Mac

remote desktop... For "free"... ...

As far as I can tell, ARD is based on VNC. Both it and Timbuktu are nearly as bad as VNC, technology-wise, albeit with somewhat better user interfaces/GUI implementations. If my choice was ARD vs VNC, I'd go with VNC because of price, few technology differences, and the fact that it's cross-platform (I can't connect from my PC to my Mac, which I want to do a LOT). Both...

Except VNC stinks. ...

You can use VNC for free for this. ...

OS X Server does allow for this type of restriction, but I don't recall seeing this on a normal OS X workstation. ...

Thanks for the suggestions. Am I mistaken? ...

Have your friend download the VNC server hosted on VersionTracker and install it. This will allow you to control your friend's mac from a Web Browser for free, albeit, very slowly and with some amount of setup. ...

Admiral, I use it on my Mac and my Windows 2000 machine at work from home. We have VPN access so that allows me to penetrate the firewall at work. It works really well. ...

lows you to set up a server with both ftp and http access.you can have an account set to allow mutliple connections,and also you can throttle the bandwidth usage for that account. ...

I'd LOVE to see Metaframe ported to Mac OSX. I'd love to be able to do desktop sharing and application sharing from, and between my Macs. ...