VNC

enable quick user switching, log into the VNC account, switch to the other account, then access the VNC account from the PC. ...

It's firewire, so it should "just work" with iChat and other apps. VNC will allow you to see the remote computer's desktop, so you can check to see if your dogs are surfing the web, and see the camera feed going into the computer. ...

Chicken of the VNC solves that problem. It works great and I'm using it daily... ...

Can you please briefly describe what "VNC into the computer" is all about? I myself have been interested in monitoring my various pets when I'm not home.

VNC would work for watching the dogs. I do this when I go away.

tting an isight, hooking it up to my G5, and leaving ichat running. Then I could login with another account and connect to the computer at home. I might need to VNC into the computer to accept the connection... ...

My girlfriend and I each have a mac in our home LAN. I would like to enable iChat to work seamlessly on both our computers. Obviously, however, NAT port mapping can only redirect certain ports to one computer at a time. Is there a way to set iChat to use different non-default ports on one of the computers so that we may both use iChat? While I am at it, I also would...

Thanks, but if Apple Remote Desktop is already a VNC viewer, wouldn't that just work aswell? ...

If you have user 1 run their VNC server out of port 5901, user 2 run out of 5902, etc. then it is possible to have multiple sessions running concurrently. It chews the bandwidth, however. ...

To add, you can also install VNC on that Mac. OSXvnc has worked great for me. This will allow you to remotely access the Macintosh graphically instead of through the command line. ...