[Ti] Remote Desktop Question

[John Lyon]

Two questions come to mind:

How secure is Apple's Remote Desktop (i.e. - immune to being hax0red or
0wn3d)

And how useable is it? It's seemed kinda choppy just across my 10 Mb/s LAN.


On 3/12/05 9:33 PM, "Chris Olson" <chris.olson at astcomm.net> either wrote,
forwarded or quoted:

> It works fine over the internet.  ARD 2 is nothing but a VNC
> server/client application.
> 
> The server (machine that you want to control from a remote location)
> will need a static IP on the LAN, or a DHCP lease time of long enough
> duration to prevent it from getting a different IP after it's been
> rebooted.  The router that routes the LAN for the server has to be set
> up to port forward TCP port 5900 from the WAN (internet) to the
> internal address of the server.
> 
> On the client side, you don't need to do anything except connect to the
> WAN IP (or hostname if it's in DNS) of the location where the server is
> on port 5900.  Obviously the WAN IP where the server is located must
> also be static or DHCP with a long enough lease time to remain
> relatively static.

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JEL