{"id":5002,"date":"2020-06-16T18:46:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=5002"},"modified":"2023-11-04T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T13:35:06","slug":"using-my-mac-remotely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/using-my-mac-remotely\/","title":{"rendered":"Using my Mac remotely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I needed to go looking for something I lost on my Mac using my w10 laptop, and have forgotten how I did it before. I wanted to get RDP working and failed. Here are my notes on what I tried to do and eventually did; it involved using 3rd party apps. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>TL:DR<\/strong> &#8211; use the Mac&#8217;s settings panel to enable the services: login, screens and file services, then install an appropriate 3rd party client on the windows machine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ooOOOoo<\/p>\n<p>First things, first, it <acronym title=\"the Mac has been in a cupboard for over a year, it actually worked better than when I put it there.\">did boot so that&#8217;s good<\/acronym> and obtained an ip address from my wireless access gateway.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some links,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/setapp.com\/how-to\/how-to-access-your-mac-remotely\">How to access your mac remotely<\/a>, by setapp.com, this is among other things an ad. for an app they author but the article documents how to use the Mac&#8217;s settings app to set up the Mac to act as a server for the required services.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/214220\/how-to-access-your-macs-screen-from-windows-and-vice-versa\/\">How to Access Your Mac\u2019s Screen from Windows (and Vice-Versa)<\/a>, from how to geek,\u00a0 deals with Mac to Windows and vice\/versa for screen access, although for the latter recommends a VNC client and not MS RDP (bugger), but this is, it would seem, yet another of Apple&#8217;s proprietary fuck ups. It also deals with <code>FTP<\/code> and <code>ssh<\/code>. This isn&#8217;t what open systems is meant to be about and this is not one that we can blame Microsoft for.<\/li>\n<li>This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realvnc.com\/en\/connect\/download\/viewer\/windows\/\">most accessible VNC client from Real VNC<\/a>, they recommend installing their server components on the server system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I installed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realvnc.com\/en\/connect\/download\/viewer\/windows\/\">VNC client<\/a> on my main desktop to allow me to connect to the MAC; it&#8217;s performance is shit, much worse than using the Mac for real which is <acronym title=\"it's over 10 years old now and I have stopped using it.\">now<acronym> pretty poor anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I use <a href=\"https:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/\">Filezilla<\/a> on the windows machine and connect to the Mac using sftp.<\/p>\n<p>Any of the shells available in <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/introducing-windows-terminal\/\">windows terminal<\/a> can invoke <code>ssh<\/code>, or you can install an app from the store.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Image: Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I needed to go looking for something I lost on my Mac using my w10 laptop, and have forgotten how I did it before. I wanted to get RDP working and failed. 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