Make Remote Desktop Admin Software run on Your Intel Mac

To make the updated solution work, you must turn off Apple Remote Desktop Sharing (System Preferences -> Sharing). Once I did this, running ARD on my MacBook Pro was flawless (and I was quite impressed by the performance).

The reason for this is that the "'Open using Rosetta' checkbox is a figment of LaunchServices' imagination. It stores a list of so-marked apps in ~/ Library/ Preferences/ com.apple.LaunchServices.plist. exec()ing an application marked 'Open using Rosetta' is not enough to get it translated; only going through a LaunchServices function will work." (per Keith Bauer's blog entry on January 30th, 2006)

When Apple Remote Desktop Sharing (via System Preferences) is enabled, ARDHelper (part of ARDAgent.app) is run as root and Apple Remote Desktop will try to use the running version. Otherwise, if it's not running, ARD will launch ARDAgent.app on its own and since it's being run as you it'll be run using Rosetta. I doubt it's being run by LaunchServices in any way, but one could try by setting up an appropriate com.apple.LaunchServices.plist in /var/root/Library/Preferences/.

Also note that each user on a particular machine (or server) will have to check off the "Open using Rosetta" box as it's per user (or you'll have to push it out to all the users).

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Morgan Aldridge
http://www.makkintosshu.com/