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Re: TMUP 154: Remote Access your Mac Today

Phil Bridges — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:09:19 -0000

To pat putnam - yep, you arn't getting it. Screen sharing is not encrypted which means you'd need to open port 5900, not usually possible in a Hotel or WiFi hotspot. You'd need to use SSH as George suggests or a web based ap like Logmein so that your traffic was secure.

Re: TMUP 154: Remote Access your Mac Today

georgestarcher — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:05:31 -0000

If you are behind a double network address translation like that then unless your isp helps you then you have no way to allow ssh through.

Re: TMUP 154: Remote Access your Mac Today

georgestarcher — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:48:26 -0000

Also sometimes you want to control a mac that is remote but unmanned. Typically with screen sharing over leopard ichat someone is on both ends. I often want to remotely control my imac at home without someone needing to be around to start screen sharing.

Re: TMUP 154: Remote Access your Mac Today

chin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:00:04 -0000

HI, George
Again it is me. I followed your podcast on setting up SSH. No problem doing that at work. But at home it is not working. I live in rural area with out cable or dsm. I get internet through a mobile broadband connection. The external IP address I see at my router is different from what I see at "what is my ipaddress.com". The way my ISP provider explained to me is he distributes one external IP address to several house holds. I tried dyndns, noip.com etc. They all point to thereal external ip address but not to the one which is pointing to my routers external ip address. Is there any way I can set up ssh to work with this kind of environment? But some how logme in has no problem reaching my computer. I am looking for alternatives because I want to use SFTP access. Thanks for any help

Re: TMUP 154: Remote Access your Mac Today

patput — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:33:24 -0000

Oh, Okay. Guess I missed that part. People actually use PCs?

Re: TMUP 154: Remote Access your Mac Today

typicalmacuser — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:29:05 -0000

Yes it's true and it's gotten a lot easier. It did not use to be and not everyone has Leopard. Many people have Tiger or are doing remote from a PC to a Mac or Mac to a PC ect. People wanted to know all the different ways to do it and this show covered the not easy way that we now I in Leopard. It was not always this easy. Hope that makes sense.

Re: TMUP 154: Remote Access your Mac Today

patput — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:11:10 -0000

Maybe I am missing something but when I want to control another Mac on my network I just log on and use screen sharing and when I want to help my brother with something on his Mac we just use ichat screen sharing. Seems like that's all you need for simple stuff like that.

Re: TMUP 154: Remote Access your Mac Today

patput — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:06:55 -0000

Maybe I'm not getting something but when I want to control another Mac on my network, I just connect and use screen sharing. And when I want to show my brother how to do something on his Mac we use screen sharing on ichat. Why go to all this other trouble, unless of course you are running a whole battalion of Macs and then you would have to have something more powerful like ARD.

Re: TMUP 154: Remote Access your Mac Today

typicalmacuser — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:10:17 -0000

Good point, I think when George and I recorded this Logmein was pretty new and since that time there are a few other too. So thanks for pointing this ojut.

Re: TMUP 154: Remote Access your Mac Today

Phil Bridges — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:46:46 -0000

And folks, don't forget logmein! Like VNC but on steroids, uses 256 bit encryption, cross platform and absurdly easy to set -up, and the basic version is free. I've been accessing my mac at home from my PC at work for 2 years which is behind a very secure government firewall.

It doesn't need any port configuration as it uses https, has some very clever features like reducing the colour content and resizing on the fly and can be accesses from virtually any browser, especially handy if you are travelling and using a public computer. I believe there is even a iPhone\Touch beta version now too.

https://secure.logmein.com/products/free/Defaul...

Cheers