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Apple Remote Desktop 1.2 Released
sirisaac82 writes "Apple released version 1.2 of its Remote Desktop software. According to the website, new features include Remote Software Installation and Remote Network Startup Disk. Too bad it wasn't released yesterday, or you could have had a few more pranks to pull on those annoying co-workers."
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The multiple observe classroom feature seems pretty neat!
Windows can do this too (See Shadowing Remote Desktop)
but it isn't as elegent as Apple's solution.
I think a lot of people will underestimate the importance of Remote Installation, but this feature is critical to using OS X in large environments. At the moment, you can use products such as Filewave to keep software up to date, but this all goes out the window when it comes to system software - MacOS updates, Quicktime, and even security updates. Apple's installer packages run necessary pre and post installation scripts, and up to now, there hasn't been a remote solution for MacOS X to do anything similar, meaning you couldn't remotely do these updates except by using SSH to run CLI programs(which in turn still limits you, as you're still virtually visiting every machine).
.1 update, but the ramifications of it are huge.
With 1.2, it's now possible to remotely run installer packages en-mass, allowing you to push out software updates, and this is huge. While it's not necessarily the best solution for software updates, 1.2 will none the less allow admins to maintain more X machines than before, enabling large-scale deployments. This is crucial for Apple, as one of the things holding X back has been the lack of remote updates, which means they'll finally be able to break X in to the largest organizations.
This may be a
OSXvnc.
Very nice, and easy to use. It's even got (more-or-less) builtin support for launching it from a shell.
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I suppose that you want something like OSXvnc, which allows you to share your main (and only) quartz display.
:99, in theory). This is one of the few huge advantages of X over Quartz/Aqua: you can create several simultaneous sessions that are kept alive independently, and that may be created by different users. It is a really useful feature but unfortunately you can only launch X applications in them, not common Cocoa/Carbon/Classic ones, and you need an X-Win window manager such as WindowMaker or AfterStep or even a full desktop environment as KDE or Gnome.
But you may also want to check out Xvnc for MacOS X, which allows you to share secondary X Window sessions (:1 through
It was just not linked from the main page -- one had to search the knowledge base to find it.
Read about it/download it here.
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