archosman Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 Is there any way I can remote view my dad's computer desktop? I'm in Nashville, he's in Tulsa. Both are cable modems and OSX. He's not computer literate so everytime I try to troubleshoot he gets confuses as to what's the desktop vs. whatever. If I could see and possibly control it that would help a bunch. Hopefully something free as opposed to buying another piece of software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 I know there's a OSX version of vnc (realvnc.com) but I think only for the paid version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 If you're running leopard, remote desktop is built in, or you can use VNC. http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20071102122311545 Is there any way I can remote view my dad's computer desktop? I'm in Nashville, he's in Tulsa. Both are cable modems and OSX. He's not computer literate so everytime I try to troubleshoot he gets confuses as to what's the desktop vs. whatever. If I could see and possibly control it that would help a bunch. Hopefully something free as opposed to buying another piece of software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ojnihs Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 LogMeIn course he'd have to do stuff on his side for this to work, but it's a great service Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 I know of two, but don't remember the name of the other. One is called WebEx, and it's a pay service. It's excellent. You can tell your dad to relinquish access to his desktop, and then you can control it, and do everything as if you're right on it. I don't remember the name of the other, but it was Java-based, and many years ago. I have no idea if either of these will work with Mac, anyway. There's also a way to do it with NetMeeting, if you've got M$ Office. But you said OSX. I'm sure there are some free ways of doing it, too -- see java desktop sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 Chicken of the VNC is a free osx vnc client, and like I said, on leopard, desktop sharing is built in. It works great. You have to make sure the right ports are forwarded on the firewall, but there's no need to get 3rd parties involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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