[DM-MUG] Screen Sharing under Tiger (10.4) & earlier

[Don Patridge]

Do you control the other computer or just view it? I am having trouble 
setting it up to control the other computer from my home computer.


On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Thorgrim wrote:

> I have been using VNC (Virtual Network Computing) for several years.
>
> There are 2 parts:
>
> 1)  Server:  This is the part that runs on the computer whose screen 
> you want to share
>
> A good and free server can be found at Redstone Software
>
> http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/server/vineosx/index.html
>
> They even have versions for OS 9 which I have successfully running on 
> an old Power Computing machine (Mac clone) using Mac OS 8.6.
>
>
> 2) Client: This is the application that allows to to connect and use 
> another machine.
>
> The one I use is "Chicken of the VNC", it is also free.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/
>
>
> The are security issues if you are sharing your Mac on the internet.  
> I am currently only using it to monitor machine on my local network 
> but it can be used for much more than that.
>
> There are VNC servers for every OS.
>
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vnc for more information on VNC 
> itself.
>
> David D. McLaughlin
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