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Ryan Faas

Biting the Apple

Leopard's Screen Sharing vs. Apple Remote Desktop

One question I’ve been asked ever since Apple announced screen sharing as a part of Leopard is whether this means larger organizations still need Apple Remote Desktop. The answer is yes in many cases. Remote observation and control are small parts of what Apple Remote Desktop can do. It also offers a wide range of remote deployment tools as well as an extensive set of reporting and asset management features. These features are sometimes even more useful than simple remote observation and management.

Even with the observation and control functionality, Apple Remote Desktop offers a broader set of tools in that it allows users to build lists of multiple computers to observe. These lists are not only used for viewing computers but display the current status of those computers even when a computer is not being explicitly viewed. Apple Remote Desktop also allows administrators to determine whether users are aware they are being monitored, to monitor several computers at once, and to use curtain mode (in which users of a computer cannot interact with it while it is being controlled remotely). User interaction is also not just limited to observe and control, it also offers the ability to send messages, chat, and respond to requests from users.

Although screen sharing is a great new feature, it is not one that replaces Apple Remote Desktop in the education or business setting.

What People Are Saying

Screen sharing needs to go platform independant

Screen sharing should be OS independent, just like adobe connect now screen sharing. Not sure if it works well on linux too. read more on my last post Platform Independent screen sharing

I don't like how screen

I don't like how screen sharing can take control of any machine. I tried disabling screen sharing so only 1 administrator can have full control with Apple remote desktop. But when I disable screen sharing, my ARD doesn't work properly. They should make it where you either want screen sharing or Apple Remote Desktop to take control. Remote management is useless when screen sharing over rides or when screen sharing is off. They need to fix this issue.

Apple remote desktop doesn't

Apple remote desktop doesn't work properly on Leopard. I tried disable screen sharing so I can have more control with ARD, and not let everyone control any machine they want. I don't like how easy anybody can control any screen. Would like to only have administrators have full access, not all users.

This is not a real problem.

This is not a real problem. Under Leopard you may configure what users may connect via Screen Sharing. Simply configure it to only allow connections form you and your admin people.

Really? Where in system

Really? Where in system preferences do you see that? This is a huge problem for classrooms on a network, the students can take control of ANY machine they want. This really needs to be removed, I am hating leopard more everyday. Really, who makes a SLOWER os than their previous ones? Not MS.

Assign User Rights to ARD

System Preferences
Sharing
Remote Management

Allow access for:
Only these users:

Your Reply To Shutting Off Screen Sharing

Your reply to the previous comment does not work. I had the exact same problem in a high school as the person you were responding to and selecting "Only these users:" doesn't get it done and can actually block ARD. From the research I've done it looks like it needs to be disabled in terminal. Apple told me that it appeared to them that the reason that I couldn't disable screen sharing was because someone got into the root and enabled screen sharing at that level.

That's why people need to

That's why people need to configure it correctly in the beginning. That's just lazy sys admins not bothering to set it up the right way in the beginning. As for the other person who asked who makes an OS that is slower than it's predecessor: Pretty much everyone ESPECIALLY MS. Between the two of us that share this house, there are currently 11 computers networked and on all the time, plus two X-terms for our friends/ family to use. We run 5 distinct OS's on them, and don't seem to have a problem making things go right because we take time to double check before we launch anything new out into our network. And believe me, we are both low- level when it comes to all out knowledge of these machines. Most 13 y/o kids know way more about them than we do, but we can read. And we check up on every major change before we make it.