[DM-MUG] Screen Sharing in leopard

[Bryan Baker]

You can share a screen (and control) in a couple ways in Leopard.
1. Through the finder on a local network.

In system Preferences, go to the Sharing control panel, and turn on  
screen sharing, you can also control which users have access from  
there (via finder).

Once this is turned on, any user with the credentials of one of the  
users listed will be able to browse the network for your machine, and  
click a button in the finder to get screen sharing started.

2. In iChat you can now request a screen sharing session, which also  
starts up a voice chat at the same time. This is what we used most of  
the time (and most of the time Victoria was displaying my machine on  
hers, though we did at least one session in reverse, which revealed a  
weird little bug - her session crashed, and I couldn't see what was  
going on on her machine, but I was still sending key and mouse info,  
it was a little spooky, but interesting).

I believe some of this is also available via back to my mac, for .Mac  
subscribers, but I only have 1 Leopard machine.

Oh, I also seem to remember, you can even share your screen w/ a  
Window or Linux box (or older mac) if they have a VNC client. This  
makes basic remote viewing and control very easy, which can be great  
for support, but only turn it on when you need/want it and restrict it  
to users you know about - running wide open could let anyone do  
whatever.

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