Connecting to ORI Macs from home

Using TightVNC and Putty, I've been able to work on the Macs at Seneca from home. It's a 2-part process; the target Mac must be configured to accept connections, and your local machine needs a VNC viewer.

So far, Spain (a Mac Mini - 142.204.133.122) and Russia (an iMac running on an Intel chip - .101) are configured for VNC. Adding more to the list won't be hard; but be sure you have a local account on the machine before you try to VNC into it!

An excellent post on the Zenit wiki details how to use Putty to make the connection faster; thanks to JBoston for pointing it out! Tell TightVNC to use default settings. Plugin the password for the Mac (if necessary), and the desktop should load in 20-30 seconds!

Keep in mind that this is remote control; it's not shared desktop. Only one user can access a pc at a time.

An advance warning: when you first VNC into the machine, you'll be greeted by the login window of the Mac. Once you log in, your session will crash!! (At least, mine did.) Just open up the viewer again, and you'll have your session working.