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Some Apple Remote Desktop client features
Authored by: victory on May 12, '05 08:43:00AM
[Hopefully it's not considered too odd to reply to one's own posting, but there's an ancillary tip I wanted to share with other Mac VNC users]

For anyone using the previously described method of tunneling into their Mac via SSH to reach a VNC server (OSXVnc, Share My Desktop or the one built into ARD), it was mentioned that COTVNC is a great OSX-based VNC client.

If you're trying do to the same from a Wintel-PC (tunnel VNC through an SSH connection), take a look at Simon Tatham's PuTTY, an awesome freeware SSH client for Windows. Besides working as a nice SSH terminal app, PuTTY also allows SSH tunneling of other Windows apps such as the aforementioned TightVNC viewer.

The great thing is that both the TightVNC viewer and PuTTY are self-contained .EXEs (i.e. they don't require you to run an 'installer' on the host PC like most other Windows apps) and are small enough to fit comfortably on a USB keychain flash drive (or simply download them from the web when needed). With these two apps, I'm able to remote-administer my Macs and *BSD servers from just about any PC when I'm without my PowerBook. (not often)

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Some Apple Remote Desktop client features
Authored by: diamondsw on May 14, '05 02:40:21AM

Sadly, Putty seems hell-bent against allowing you to carry an SSH profile with you on that USB key. Setting up an SSH profile with port forwarding every time is a real pain.



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