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Re: Apple Remote Desktop (was Re: [PLUG] OT: Mac OS X question)
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- From: "Brian Stempin" <brian.stempin@gmail.com>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: Apple Remote Desktop (was Re: [PLUG] OT: Mac OS X question)
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:51:43 -0400
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>From what I've gathered from the last job that I was actively administering OSX, Apple Remote Desktop nothing more than a glorified extension of VNC. IIRC, it even operates on the same port as VNC. If you try connecting to it using a plain-old VNC client, you should get a prompt for a password, but then an error message after that.
Take this with a huge grain of salt though, (a) it's been a while since I've done OSX administration, and (b) as you see, I have no sources for my VNC claim.
On 10/10/07,
gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net> wrote:
At 2007-10-10 09:47 -0400, Brent Saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote:
> well, i did..i knew this existed, i was wondering if there was a DIY hack
> for it.
>
> i figured it's probably just a service, right? so what's to stop someone
> from forwarding it to another machine much as one can forward an X session
> to a server on a different machine...
As I understand it, that's not correct, although I am no expert on
the topic. My understanding is that the Mac OS X GUI does not
have the same client/server architecture built into it that X11 does
(in fact, the X Window System is fairly unique in that
architecture), so it does require a totally separate piece of
software in order to provide the service.
(Note, incidentally, that Microsoft Windows also requires a separate
piece of software to do this, it just so happens that their kind
enough to throw in a couple user licenses of Terminal Services for
free these days.)
--
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net
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