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It has a reverse-VNC feature where someone can connect a client to your VNC server and you control their desktop instead of the other way around.
#Cowboy remote for mac install#
You can enable the VNC service in OS X easily (it’s already built into the operating system), and on windows you can install something like TightVNC. If you’re connecting with any other configuration, such as from Windows to OS X, or perhaps from your iPad or something, use VNC.
#Cowboy remote for mac pro#
The built-in Windows Remote Desktop service is only available in Pro editions of Windows and higher, so if you have a home edition (such as Home Premium) of XP/Vista/7, consider the VNC alternative detailed below.
#Cowboy remote for mac password#
Most of the Remote Desktop technologies have password protection to prevent unauthorized access, but some Remote Desktop technologies do not protect (encrypt) the password or screen data as it passes over your network, so be careful not to use Remote Desktop on a network with untrusted users, as you don’t want someone to know your VNC password or snooping on your screen sharing session.
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Setting Remote Desktop up on your computer is easy, you’ll need to do two things: allow remote control on the computer you want to control and install a remote desktop application on the other computer.Ī word of caution: Enabling Remote Desktop on your computer means that anyone on your network (behind your router) can connect to, view, and control your computer. A few other terms for “Remote Desktop” that you may have heard of are VNC, or RDP. Remote Desktop is essentially a program for your computer that shares your screen and lets you control the computer from another computer. This is what’s called “Remote Desktop”, and it’s awesome. The trick here is that those two windows are my two other computers. This is my mac mini’s OSX desktop, with Windows in the left application window, and another OSX in the right window. If you look closely you’ll notice that a few of my desktop applications look a little odd. See that? That’s my desktop this afternoon.