No need for Port Forwading or putzing with your firewalls.
Like I said: it is possible … but I wouldn’t recommend going through the hassle when you can use easier, free and much more secure services like LogMeIn and Team Viewer. It is possible to use VNC remotely – meaning for example while traveling control your computer at home, or control the computer of your mom helping her with her computer. Press ENTER when done and the Screen Sharing app opens. Simply open Safari and enter “vnc://” followed by the IP Address of the VNC Server, for example: “vnc://192.168.1.109”. This is probably the easiest way to open the VNC Client called Screen Sharing. It’s tucked away pretty good though – not sure why Apple did that. MacOS X, if I’m not mistaken since 10.4, has a VNC Client installed already. Note : RealVNC is free and has a very suitable VNC Client, but why install more software if you don’t really need to? There are lots of VNC Clients out there, and strangely enough … they charge money for something you already have on your computer.
It’s main purpose is to display the “screenshots” of the controlled computer, as send by the VNC Server, and to send mouse moves and keyboard strokes to the VNC Server on the computer that is being controlled. It is the program on the computer that is controlling the other computer.
Screen Sharing for regular VNC clients VNC ClientĪ VNC Client is the otherside of the story.
