Mac DIY – How to Remotely Control your Mac using Open Source VNC!

by max on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

There are many free PC/Mac remote control services such as GoToMyPC. There’s also VNC, which is open source version of those. You will need to install server/client software on both ends of the computers, just like GoToMyPC. Using Chicken of VNC, you can now remotely control your Mac and here’s a great site detailing how to do that.

One more note, you can use free services like no-ip.com, which allows you to maintain a static domain name for your dynamic IP address. This will work well if you are on regular phone DSL as they tend to change IPs often.

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Tags: client software, dynamic ip address, gotomypc, open source version, pc mac, remote-control, server client, static domain name, vnc

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One Response to “Mac DIY – How to Remotely Control your Mac using Open Source VNC!”

GEARFUSE » Afternoon Linkage for June 23rd, 2009 says:

June 23, 2009 at 1:37 pm

[...] Remote control your Mac when you’re away from home [...]

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