VNC

Try VNC, it does what you're looking for with the OSX GUI.

in the gui, and launch all the login items for that user, start the SystemUIServer, Finder, etc. so that I can use something such as vnc to control the machine remotely. ...

Hi Yoyoma, I actually do the same thing as you, design computer chips using legacy EDA tools. Take a look at VNC, you can run an 8 bit display nested inside of your normal display and connect to it from other hosts, such as from home over a PVN. http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html> <

to write an X11 application which you can tunnel over the ssh connection in which care you are in vanilla Unix land. The other option would be to arrange to run VNC on the mac to give you access to its desktop on your box. However if you do that then you can just use Interface builder and nibs. ...

Oh, well I guess I'll just have to run up my phone bill and try to guide him through the paces. I don't think the VNC would work well since he has a 28k connection.. and my cable connection is pretty pathetic. ...

Have your friend download the VNC server hosted on VersionTracker and install it. ...

ually Remote Desktop comes standard on Windows XP, at least the professional edition, and the connection client for OS X is completely free. It works great, but VNC sounds like it allows you to do more. You can't control both ways with Remote Desktop and they don't have a Java client. ...

Also which version numbers of VNC are you using. You may want to try some different version numbers. I have found several that were buggy. ...

A VNC server goes very deep into the system and of course can cause kernel panics. ...

also,if you want to be able to control your mac from a pc,there is timbuktu which does the trick.however there is another app called VNC which is free and works pretty well.easy to use and easy to configure the server on your mac.you can get it over here . ...