Posts Tagged Apple

Apple Remote Desktop

Posted by Mark Raborn in Mac, WIGITAL on 2009/06/13

Apple Remote Desktop enables Administrators or Mac Users to connect remotely to an Apple OS X computer and interact with that computer as though sitting at the console. Apple Remote Desktop requires Apple OS X 10.3.9 or higher (10.4 or higher for all features). 

Apple Remote Desktop encrypts aspects of ARD traffic including Authentication, Administration, Observe and Network Control Data

learn about Encryption in Apple Remote Desktop here

learn about what is NOT encrypted in Apple Remote Desktop here

 

Install Apple Remote Desktop on the Administrators Computer

On the Administrators Computer create an Apple Remote Desktop user account (i.e. ARDuser) and password (i.e. P@ssword)

  • System Preferences | Users | Add Users
  • select checkbox to All user to administer this computer

On each Remote Client Computer (the target systems for Apple Remote Desktop) – Create an Apple Remote Desktop user account with the exact same credentials as the Administrator system  (i.e. ARDuser) and password (i.e. P@ssword)

  • System Preferences | Users | Add Users
  • select checkbox to All user to administer this computer

Select the  Services available to the Apple Remote Desktop User (i.e. ARDuser) on that client machine. Apple Remote Desktop services available to Users through System Preferences | Sharing | Apple Remote Desktop can allow the user to do the following:

  • Generate Reports
  • Open and quit applications
  • Change settings
  • Delete and replace items
  • Send text messages
  • Restart and shut down
  • Copy items
  • Observe
    • Control
    • Show when being observed

You can also “pre-define” these settings in a Client Installer for Apple Remote Desktop and deploy these same settings and the User Account for Apple Remote Desktop to multiple machines simultaneously.

Downloads

Apple Remote Desktop Technology Overview

Apple Remote Desktop Administrators Guide

Tutorials

Apple Remote Desktop – Remote Assistance

Apple Remote Desktop – Remote Administration

Apple Remote Desktop – Easy Setup

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Using Apple Macintosh File Systems with Windows Services for Mac

Posted by Mark Raborn in Mac on 2008/11/08

File Systems tools for interoperability between Windows, Apple Macintosh, and Linux

Useful free tools (and good reading) for use in a heterogeneous [ Windows / Mac / Linux ] File System environment

Windows File System tools serving Mac

Services For Macintosh (SFM)

SFM was an effort by Microsoft supporting Mac integration into the Windows Network. SFM is available in Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Server (but has been dropped from Windows 2008 Server). Services For Mac includes these three key Server services:

File Server for Mac – KB147438

File Server for Macintosh (FSM), which is part of SFM, allows Windows and Macintosh clients to create and open files on the same share by presenting the files to the clients with the naming conventions used by their operating systems.

Macintosh and Windows Server Integration – TechFAQ

The folks at TechFAQ have written an excellent article on Mac and Windows Server Integration. The article includes detail walkthroughs about activiting and administering verious Services For Macintosh features.

Also, here are genrally helpful tips on Performance Tuning Guidelines for Microsoft Services for Network File System

File System Tools from the Open Source Community

NTFS-3G

An NTFS driver for Mac OS X and Linux is NTFS-3G – ( also read the NTFS-3G FAQ )

The NTFS-3G driver is a freely and commercially available and supported read/write NTFS driver for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista file systems. POSIX file system operations are supported, and full file ownership and permission support is available as well.

Mac File System software serving Windows

Linux File System software serving Windows and Apple Macintosh

User Space File System software

  • Linux – FUSE -  http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/OperatingSystems
  • Mac – MacFUSE – http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
  • Windows – WinFUSE – http://www.suchwerk.net/sodcms_FUSE_for_WINDOWS.htm
  • Windows – UniversalFUSE – http://www.eldos.com/cbfs/

Experiment with these File System resources in your heterogeneous environments. Please comment if you have more, better, or mo-better solutions.

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