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Use a reverse SSH tunnel to get around firewalls
Authored by: wilton on Feb 25, '05 10:41:37AM
Would this not also be possible using a normal VNC server on your mother's mac.
I had a similar problem with my mother's iMac, so I guided her through install Share My Desktop. This is only 400k in size compared to the 7.1MB for ARD.

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Use a reverse SSH tunnel to get around firewalls
Authored by: ekc on Feb 25, '05 03:28:22PM

I like ARD at the office when I'm on a nice speedy LAN, but it's not so great over a shaky Internet connection. I prefer OSXvnc for the server and COTVNC for the client in that case. (I haven't tried Share My Desktop, but it looks like it's built around OSXvnc.)



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Use a reverse SSH tunnel to get around firewalls
Authored by: jdb8167 on Feb 25, '05 05:42:58PM

You can use any VNC server. I've used OSXvnc for years but not with this particular trick but it will work. I use ARD right now because even though OSXvnc seems a little faster, I suspect that ARD will be eventually part of the OS install.



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