Comments on: How-To: Remotely Control Your Mac Over the Internet http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:38:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rich http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-556919 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:22:51 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-556919 porn is a crime?

]]> By: brandon http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349082 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 20:49:32 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349082 But if you have a free dropbox, you can transfer with that :-)

]]> By: dolt http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349081 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:17:29 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349081 for remote control I prefer to use ActyMac DutyWatch Remote

]]> By: Remote Control Software http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349080 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:47:40 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349080 While this does not seem much easier than the Windows method, I would bet it is more reliable. Still, are there any advantages to using these solutions over third party ? I would think the third party options are more feature rich, although there is the downside of them not being installed on every Mac…Are there any other advantages to using the native offering for these needs?

]]> By: AV http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349079 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:17:06 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349079 Best and easiest way so far is welcome.toyourmac.com – TOP!

]]> By: links for 2009-06-25 at So It’s Come To This: http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349078 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:12:02 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349078 [...] How-To: Remotely Control Your Mac Over the Internet (tags: howto mac reference tutorial apple networking remote Internet hacks) [...]

]]> By: idaho beef http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349077 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:49:00 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349077 hard to make work. but not too difficult for most people to hook up and run.

]]> By: Khürt Williams http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349076 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:05:05 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349076 Worse yet. They could use the storage on your computer as a staging area for crime (like warez and porn).

]]> By: Khürt Williams http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349075 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:03:37 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349075 Like CVBruce suggested you can simply use one of the dynamic DNS services ( I use OpenDNS ) with software that updates the name server each time your external IP changes. I have it installed on one of my Mac and it updates once a day.

http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/
http://www.opendns.com/support/article/90

]]> By: David K http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349074 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:46:19 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349074 I set all of this up. I get “could not connect to server. connection refused: connect()”

]]> By: Bryan http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349073 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:31:44 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349073 I agree with lh on 2 counts. First is that it is never good to arbitrarily open common ports on your firewall (you are just asking for trouble) and second VNC is a non-encrypted protocol (EVERYTHING you type is in plain text).

As you will find all over the internet you should utilize an SSH tunnel to keep your traffic encrypted. This is less of an issue being that OS X ships with SSH server :)

]]> By: lh http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349072 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:58:22 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349072 What about security? I’ve always been a bit leery about opening up ports on my router’s firewall. Someone could do a lot of damage if they got access to screen sharing.

]]> By: jtbandes http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349071 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:36:13 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349071 Is there a reason you’re using the “Remote Management” Sharing setting instead of “Screen Sharing”?

]]> By: CVBruce http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349070 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:27:23 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349070 This seems like so much work. Like most people, don’t have a static IP address, so I use DynDNS.

The other part of the solution is ShareTool. A secure way to use my Desktop at home from my notebook. Using ShareTool, I can access my Desktop with Screen Sharing. I can also access my iPhoto library and my iTunes library, my network printers, my network disks. All of this happens over encrypted SSH tunnels.

]]> By: Jason http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349069 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:09:22 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349069 I don’t like Windows for much, but RDC is about 100x better than VNC.

]]> By: kooikerexpress http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-remotely-control-your-mac-over-the-internet/#comment-349068 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:53:01 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=26451#comment-349068 Except that under the free logmein you cannot transfer files.

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