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Use an office Mac from a home Mac
Authored by: CompuDude on Oct 19, '04 04:16:56PM

If you have access to an OSX server, setting up a VPN through which you can establish a normal (yet ultra-secure) ARD connection is a LOT easier than this. I suppose this hint is mostly for those who can't just use the built-in VPN server in OSX server, and then run ARD over that, rather than jumping through all the SSH hoops.

For OSX server, just turn on the VPN service, add a user with rights, open a couple ports in your firewall to the VPN server (GRE/vpn passthrough and tcp 1723) (assuming you use a hardware firewall over and above the built-in OSX firewall), and connect from home with the internet connect applet (which takes all of 4 easy steps the first time, username, password, address and PPTP, and 2 clicks on the menubar item thereafter). Once connected, you're on the internal work network as if you had plugged into the switch, and making an ARD connection is exactly the same from doing it from inside the network (scan and click connect or choose from master list).

-CD



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