Remote Access

[sbl2000]

Hello everyone, I look after a few Mac’s for people I’ve known for many years. I’d like to connect to them remotely. Is there an easy way to do this as most of them are using routers? Any advice would be deeply appreciated. Thanks Steven

[guitar24t]

What is your network setup like?
Are they all behind different routers?
The easy way is to enable screen sharing in leopard and connect through ip address. If each is behind its own router (like a home network) ask them to forward port 5900 to their mac and then connect with their username and password. If you are good at bash and shell, you could forward port 22 to allow ssh (which is much more secure than vnc).

If you would still like to use vnc and still have security, lookup vnc over ssh.
Look into [url]http://www.macserve.org.uk/projects/issh/[/url] for this.

Good Luck,
Robert

[sbl2000]

Thank you and sorry for the long delay.

Don’t they have to have a .mac account to use screen sharing remotely?

thanks
Steven

[guitar24t]

No they do not. On the router (if they are home users), you need only forward port 5900 to the client! 😀
Then you may use their external ip to access their computer through screen sharing, but setup this way, you must use another mac to control the client. If you wish to enable normal vnc access, under screen sharing, there is a Computer Settings… button. You enable vnc and type in a vnc password to use.
But no, you don’t need .mac, thank goodness!
Hope this helps,
Robert

[sbl2000]

That’s great, thank you. Of course I should have looked before asking.

Thanks again.
Steven

[guitar24t]

No problem, glad I could help!
Robert

[tlarkin]

Free, no need to open prots, all over port 443 and it is web based and platform independent.

[url]http://www.logmein.com[/url]

No need to fuss with port forwarding and if there are multiple machines behind a router no need to forward multiple ports.

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