How Mac can control other Macs remotely

How Mac can control other Macs remotelyposted on October 15, 2012

Many times, we will encounter the need to be remote help or remote help other people's situation, under Windows we can use remote connection or QQ Remote Assistance to complete, but, under the Mac and Windows, QQ version is not updated to support Remote Assistance.

We all know that Mac OS X comes with a screen sharing feature that makes it easy to remotely control other machines (or be controlled). You do not need to have any advanced computer foundation, only a few simple settings can be simple remote control.

Below, the boy with two Mac computers to introduce how to do screen sharing remote control. One is the screen "shared"-understood to be called a server, one is used to control the viewing of another screen--can be called the client.

Let's start with the screen sharing feature of the "Shared screen" (that is, the server): System Preferences-share, tick the screen share on the left, set the allowed users, and remember the IP address in the red box.

Next, we open the control Mac (the client mentioned above): Click on the desktop, press Command+k to eject the connection server, enter the previously recorded IP address (vnc://ip address), and then perform user authentication.

For user authentication: The Mountain Lion system has three user authentication methods:

1. Use previously set to allow access to user authentication.

2. Use Apple ID authentication (the same icloud Apple ID as on the server Mac machine).

3. Manual Authentication (requires manual consent from the server's Mac).

When we turn on screen sharing, we can perform various control operations on the server system on the client, and Mountain Lion also allows multiple people (multiple clients) to access the screen of the same Mac server, and even to drag shared files directly from the Mac between the shared screens.

The functions of remote connections like windows are realized through the above steps. Seemingly complex is also very simple, just follow the steps of the kid to operate.

Also, what we want to know is that this shared screen on Mac uses the VNC protocol, which is supported across platforms, which means that you can access Mac-shared images on IPad, IPhone, Android, Linux and even windows.

How Mac can control other Macs remotely