There are plenty of uses for remote controlling, it’s helpful when troubleshooting and diagnosing problematic Macs, remotely rebooting and sleeping Macs, and even provides a somewhat slow method to using a single keyboard and mouse to use different Macs, though sharing a keyboard is best done with an app like Teleport or Synergy. With new versions of Mac OS, multiple people can connect to and observe the same Macs screen too, though if you’re trying to do a live screen cast you’d be better off using Google Hangouts.Īlso exclusive to more modern Mac OS X releases (10.8 and later) is the ability to share files between Screen Shared Macs just by dragging and dropping, though if you don’t have that option there are other easy ways to share files too. The video below demonstrates the connecting side of things: With fast enough internet connections, there isn’t much lag in using the remote Mac at all, though it’ll likely be smoothest if connected over a LAN. Anything left open from the user you logged in as will be visible, and you have full access to everything on the Mac. The client Mac will now connect to the server and you’ll quickly find the servers screen sitting in a window. You can also directly access and use the Mac VNC client Screen Sharing for this purpose.

Authenticate according to the allowed users, and connect to the other Mac to control the screen.

Prefixed with vnc:// enter the IP address of the Mac you want to connect to and control the screen of, for example:.

From the Finder, hit Command+K or pull down the “Go” menu and bring up Connect To Server.

Connect to the Remote Mac Screen (as client) With sharing enabled on the server Mac, now a connection can be made from the client Mac (or PC).

Make a note of the Macs IP address, that is what you will be connecting to.

Set access as necessary by choosing “Administrators” or specifying a specific user that can remotely control the Mac.

Check the box next to “Screen Sharing” to enable the feature on the Mac you want to share.

Open System Preferences from the  Apple menu and click on “Sharing”.

Enable Screen Sharing on the Mac whose Screen will be shared (as server) We’ll break this walkthrough into two parts, one for setting up the “server” and one for connecting to those servers with a “client”. To make things easy, the Mac screen being shared will be called the “server” and the other Mac connecting to it will be called the “client”. How to Set Up & Use Screen Sharing in Mac OS X

Screen Sharing is extremely easy to setup, follow along or watch the video below for a quick demonstration. Screen Sharing will work across just about any supported Mac OS X versions too, a Mac running macOS Big Sur, macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, MacOS High Sierra, Mac OS Sierra, OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and anything newer, can connect to a work Mac running Snow Leopard, and so on.

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