SeanM Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 I have multiple Mac's yet I don't see the screen sharing option. Does all Macs need to have Leopard for that to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grmbl Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 I have Tiger on Intel Mini. Controlling it in screen sharing without problems. Seems a lot faster than Remote Desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipodboy61 Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 yeah it works ,,, better than remote desktop (for me) .. but only have got it on local networks not through ichat . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capeman Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Works fine on local network for me too. Can finally get rid of Chicken of the VNC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanM Posted June 23, 2007 Author Share Posted June 23, 2007 I figured it out, seems obvious but I did not have screen-sharing enabled on my Tiger machines. Feel so stupid now.... It's really fast and smooth and works great. I wish you could drag files from your computer to the other one being shared (like Parallels), but maybe I just haven't found out how to do that. Has anyone figured out how (or if it's possible) to start screen sharing via Applescript? I'd like to be able to bypass the password entering thing and just click on an applescript app in the dock or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grmbl Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 I'd like to be able to bypass the password entering thing and just click on an applescript app in the dock or something. I have Tiger machine's password stored in keychain and it does not ask anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adc89 Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 I wish you could drag files from your computer to the other one being shared (like Parallels), but maybe I just haven't found out how to do that. You might need Remote Desktop or Leopard installed on the other computer. It works on mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanM Posted June 24, 2007 Author Share Posted June 24, 2007 (edited) edit: just finished automating this completely with Applescript... hopefully someone else will find this useful. Copy into Script Editor.app and save it. --Opens Screen Sharing tell application "Screen Sharing" activate end tell --Inputs computer name and connects tell application "System Events" keystroke "iMac.local" keystroke return end tell change iMac.local to the name of the computer you want to connect to. Your password must be stored in the keychain for this to work. You can save this as an application and keep it in your dock, use it in Automator workflows, use it as a trigger in quicksilver or something, etc. Edited June 24, 2007 by SeanM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemiola Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 edit: just finished automating this completely with Applescript... hopefully someone else will find this useful. Thanks for this ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractica Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Screen Sharing works fine but i'm always "forced" to control it with the mouse whereas i only want to see the distant desktop. Is there a way to solve this problem ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 yeah it works ,,, better than remote desktop (for me) .. but only have got it on local networks not through ichat . Then what is the iChat Screen sharing button for? EDIT: Never mind, I misunderstood what you were saying there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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