You need to know your router IP address and your external IP address. So lets say you want your office machine to always be accessible whilst you are on the road and want to connect in every now and then. To make this work to connect to a computer outside of your local network you need to have a static public IP address make a change to your router port forwarding settings. Vnc://machinename.local but you’ll have to close any spaces with hypens and remove apostrophes. Or if you know the bonjour local name of a machine on the network you could enter in the Connect to Server dialog box –

In the Finder go to the Preferences menu and under ‘Shared’ – checkbox the ‘Bonjour Computers’ a list of machines on your local area network will then appear under your ‘Shared’ devices in the sidebar, so now all you have to do is click the computer you want and then the ‘Share Screen…’ button top right. Connect Via Bonjour Computer in Shared Devices in FinderĮven easier than remembering IP addresses and connection VNC strings is to log into screen sharing via the Bonjour listing. If there is a user currently logged you get the option to share their screen or just go straight to yours you can ask the currently logged in user to share their screen or choose to see your own account not interrupting the current user by selecting the ‘virtual display’ button. You can avoid entering the username for the remote machine in the follow up login dialog box by adding the username to the connection string in the initial connection like so…Īs long as the user exists on the remote computer you will just be asked for your password. When the connection is made you will be prompted to authenticate as an admin user account residing on the machine you are logging intoĮnter the correct details and you will then see and control the remote computer on your screen. Whichever method you use to connect, the address method you enter is the same – vnc://ipaddress System/Library/CoreServices/, you can get to this by clicking the ‘Go to Folder’ also in the ‘Go’ menu in the Finder. On the machine that you are connecting from whilst in the Finder, either click on the ‘Go’ menu in the Finder or “command+k” keys to bring up the ‘Connect to Server’ dialog box or drag the Screen Sharing.app lurking in the depths below to your Dock as an alias and launch that every time. Set Up the Remote Machine You Are Connecting From If the option is greyed out it will be because ‘Remote Management’ is on, Remote Management also uses VNC and is tied to Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) both cannot run simultaneously, disable Remote Management and Screen Sharing will be accessible. Using Screen Sharing Set Up the Remote Machine You Are Connecting Toįor the machine that you want to connect to you need to make sure it has screen sharing enabled.Įnable ‘Screen Sharing’ via the System Preferences under the Apple Menu.

Here are 2 ways to connect one is using the the Screen Sharing application buried deep in the file system the other is a quick way using the Shared Devices in the sidebar in the finder. OS X 10.9 Mavericks supports the protocol VNC – Virtual Network Computing to connect 2 remote computers which is done via ‘ Screen Sharing‘.

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